W. (Wolfgang) Ketter
Associate Professor
- Department of Decision and Information Sciences
- Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- T: +31 10 4082624
- E: wketter@rsm.nl
- Programme:
- Logistics & Information Systems
- ERIM Membership:
- Member ERIM (since 2007)
Wolfgang Ketter is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Professor Ketter is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus. The goal fo this group is to research, develop and apply autonomous and mixed initiative intelligent agent systems to support human decision making in the area of business networks, electronic markets, energy grids and supply chain management.
His is also the founder and director of the Erasmus Center for Future Energy Business which enables robust, intelligent, efficient and sustainable energy networks of the future.
Professor Ketter leads Power TAC, a new TAC competition on energy retail markets. Since 2011 he has served as the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Energy Markets. Het was the program co-chair of the International Conference of Electronic Commerce (ICEC) in 2011.
He co-chaired the TADA workshop at AAAI in 2008, has been the general chair of the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) in 2009, is a member of the board of directors of the Association for Trading Agent Research (ATAR) since 2009, and its chair since 2010.
His research has been published in information systems- and computer science journals such as AI Magazine, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Energy Policy, the European Journal of Information Systems, INFORMS-OR/MS Today, INFORMS, Information Systems Research and the International Journal of Electronic Commerce.
He serves on the editorial board of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.
Professor Ketter was the keynote speaker at the International KES Conference on Agents and Multi agent Systems Technologies and Applications in 2012, and the Agents and Data Mining Interaction Workshop in 2012.
He was the keynote speaker at the Scandinavian Energy Conference in Oslo in 2011. He has given numerous distinguished lectures at international conferences, and renowned universities including Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Liverpool, RWTH Aachen, the University of Connecticut, TU Delft, KIT, the University of Mannheim and University of St. Thomas.
He receives his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2007.
- Ketter, Wolfgang, Collins, John & Reddy, Prashant (2013). Power TAC: a competitive economic simulation of the smart grid. Energy Economics.
- Valogianni, K., Ketter, W., de Weerdt, M. & Collins, J. (2013). Influence of the Customers Risk Attitude on the Introduction of Electric Vehicles. In Winter Conference on Business Intelligence. Snowbird, Utah.
- Lu, Y., Gupta, A., Ketter, W. & van Heck, E. (2013). Anchoring in Multi-unit Sequential B2B Auctions: Evidence from the Dutch Flower Auctions. Winter Conference on Business Intelligence: Snowbird, Utah (2013, februari 28 - 2013, maart 02).
- Lu, Y., van Iterson, P., Gupta, A., Ketter, W., van Dalen, J. & van Heck, E. (2013). Buy It Now or Later: The Impact of Mari on Multi-unit Sequential Dutch Auctions. Winter Conference on Business Intelligence: Snowbird, Utah (2013, februari 28 - 2013, maart 02).
- Valogianni, K., Ketter, W., de Weerdt, M. & Collins, J. (2013). Modeling Electric Vehicle Customers and Learning a Heuristic Charging Behavior. In AAMAS - Fourth International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2013) (pp. 1-8). Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Key publications (10)
- Ketter, W. & Symeonidis, A. (2012). Competitive Benchmarking: Lessons learned from the Trading Agent Competition. AI Magazine, 33(2), 103-107.
- Ketter, Wolfgang, Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2012). Real-time tactical and strategic sales management for intelligent agents guided by economic regimes. Information Systems Research, 23(4), 1263-1283.
- Gottwalt, Sebastian, Ketter, Wolfgang, Block, Carsten, Collins, John & Weinhardt, Christof (2011). Demand side management- A simulation of household behavior under variable prices. Energy Policy, 39(12), 8163-8174.
- Amigoni, F., Gini, Maria & Ketter, W. (2010). Introduction: Multi-agent systems for energy management. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 17(4), 271-272.
- Bichler, M, Gupta, Alok & Ketter, Wolfgang (2010). Research Commentary - designing smart markets. Information Systems Research, 21(4), 688-699.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2010). Flexible decision support in dynamic interorganizational networks. European Journal of Information Systems, 19(4), 436-448.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Sadeh, Norman (2010). Pushing the limits of rational agents: The trading agent competition for supply chain management. AI Magazine, 31(2), 63-80.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2009). Flexible decision control in an autonomous trading agent. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 8(2), 91-105.
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2009). Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in multi-agent automated exchanges. Decision Support Systems, 47(4), 307-318.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2002). A Multi-Agent Negotiation Testbed for Contracting Tasks with Temporal and Precedence Constraints. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 7(1), 35-57.
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Articles (48)
- Peters, M., Ketter, W., Saar-Tsechansky, M. & Collins, John (2013). Autonomous data-driven decision-making in Smart Electricity Markets. Machine Learning, Accepted.
- Collins, J., Ketter, W., Valogianni, K. & de Weerdt, M. (2012). Constructing and operating a large - scale simulation of retail electric power markets. In 8th Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR 2012). Montreal, Canada..
- Kahlen, M., Valogianni, K., Ketter, W. & van Dalen, J. (2012). A Profitable Business Model for Electric Vehicle Fleet Owners. In IEEE - International Conference on Smart Grid Technology, Economis and Policies, Nuremberg, Germany..
- Ketter, W. & Symeonidis, A. (2012). Competitive Benchmarking: Lessons learned from the Trading Agent Competition. AI Magazine, 33(2), 103-107.
- Ketter, Wolfgang, Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2012). Real-time tactical and strategic sales management for intelligent agents guided by economic regimes. Information Systems Research, 23(4), 1263-1283.
- Richter, A, van der Laan, E., Ketter, W. & Valogianni, K. (2012). Transitioning from the traditional to the smart grid: Lessons learned from closed-loop supply chains. In IEEE - International Conference on Smart Grid Technology, Economics and Policies. Nuremberg, Germany..
- Valogianni, K., Ketter, W., de Weerdt, M. & Collins, J. (2012). Analysis of Smart Grid Balancing using Realistic Customer Models. In Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Phoenix, Arizona.
- Gottwalt, Sebastian, Ketter, Wolfgang, Block, Carsten, Collins, John & Weinhardt, Christof (2011). Demand side management- A simulation of household behavior under variable prices. Energy Policy, 39(12), 8163-8174.
- Amigoni, F., Gini, Maria & Ketter, W. (2010). Introduction: Multi-agent systems for energy management. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 17(4), 271-272.
- Bichler, M, Gupta, Alok & Ketter, Wolfgang (2010). Research Commentary - designing smart markets. Information Systems Research, 21(4), 688-699.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2010). Flexible decision support in dynamic interorganizational networks. European Journal of Information Systems, 19(4), 436-448.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Sadeh, Norman (2010). Pushing the limits of rational agents: The trading agent competition for supply chain management. AI Magazine, 31(2), 63-80.
- Hogenboom, A.C., Hogenboom, F.P., Kaymak, U., Ketter, W., Dalen, J. van & Collins, J. (2010). Towards a Dynamic Model of Supply Chain Regimes for Complex Multi-Agent Markets. In 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2010) (pp. 3219-3225). Istanbul, Turkey: IEEE.
- Lu, Y., Ketter, W., van Heck, E. & Collins, J. (2010). Preference Learning for Multi-Attribute Bilateral Negotiations in a Competitive Agent-based Energy Market. In Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HUCOM) (pp. 320-323). Delft, The Netherlands.
- Lu, Y., Ketter, W., van Heck, E. & Collins, J. (2010). Preferences Modeling for Multi-Attribute Negotiations in Agent-based Energy Management. In 11th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) (pp. 262-265). Delft, The Netherlands.
- Adam, Marc T. P., Gamer, Matthias, Hey, Stefan, Ketter, W. & Weinhardt, Christof (2009). Measuring the impact of emotions on decision-making in electronic markets: A physio-economic approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GND). Toronto, Canada.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2009). Flexible decision control in an autonomous trading agent. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 8(2), 91-105.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Pakanati, Anuraag (2009). An experiment management framework for TAC SCM agent evaluation. In Workshop: Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) at Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009) (pp. 9-13). AAAI Press.
- Giesen, Erik, Ketter, W. & Zuidwijk, R.A. (2009). An Agent-based Approach to Improving Resource Allocation in the Dutch Youth Health Care Sector. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) (pp. 2403-2415). Verona, Italy.
- Giesen, Erik, Ketter, W. & Zuidwijk, R.A. (2009). An Agent-based Analysis Approach to Resource Allocation in the Dutch Youth Health Care System. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop on Information Systems and Technology (WITS-09). Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- Groves, William, Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2009). Analyzing market interactions in a multi-agent supply chain environment. In Eigth Workshop on e-Business. AIS.
- Gupta, A., Ketter, W., Heck, E. van & Wasesa, M. (2009). Real-time support for auctioneers to determine optimal clock start for multi-unit sequential dutch auctions. In Eigth Workshop on e-Business. AIS.
- Hogenboom, A.C., Ketter, W., Dalen, J. van, Kaymak, U., Collins, J. & Gupta, A. (2009). Product Pricing in TAC SCM using Adaptive Real-Time Probability of Acceptance Estimations based on Economic Regimes. In Proceedings of the IJCAI'09 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2009) (pp. 15-24). Pasadena, California, USA.
- Hogenboom, A.C., Ketter, W., Dalen, J. van, Kaymak, U., Collins, J. & Gupta, A. (2009). Product Pricing using Adaptive Real-Time Probability of Acceptance Estimations based on Economic Regimes. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2009) (pp. 176-185). Taipei, Taiwan: ACM.
- Hogenboom, A.C., Ketter, W., Dalen, J. van, Kaymak, U., Collins, John & Gupta, Alok (2009). Adaptive Pricing in Multi-Agent Supply Chain Markets using Economic Regimes. In Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2009). San Diego, USA.
- Hogenboom, F.P., Ketter, W., Dalen, J. van, Kaymak, U., Collins, J. & Gupta, A. (2009). Identifying and Predicting Economic Regimes in Supply Chains Using Sales and Procurement Information. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2009) (pp. 19-28). Taipei, Taiwan.
- Hogenboom, F.P., Ketter, W., Dalen, J. van, Kaymak, U., Collins, J. & Gupta, A. (2009). Economic Regime Identification and Prediction in TAC SCM Using Sales and Procurement Information. In E.H. Gerding (Ed.), Proceedings of the IJCAI'09 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2009) (pp. 25-34). Pasadena, California, USA.
- Ketter, W., Sadeh, Norman & Walsh, William (2009). AAAI-08 Trading Agent Design and Analysis Workshop Report. AI Magazine, 30(1), 115-116.
- Ketter, W. & Srour, Jordan (2009). Optimal or agile? Tradeoffs between optimization and agent-based methods. OR/MS Today, 36(3), 22-27.
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2009). Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in multi-agent automated exchanges. Decision Support Systems, 47(4), 307-318.
- Ketter, W., Banjanin, Marko, Guikers, Rob & Kayser, Alfred (2009). Introducing an Agile Method for Enterprise Mash-Up Component Development. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC-09) (pp. 293-300). Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society.
- Nelson, Andrew, Nyabuti, Dickens, Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2009). Ontology-driven decision support in dynamic supply-chains. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing (CEC-09). Vienna, Austria.
- Nelson, Andrew, Nyabuti, Dickens, Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2009). Toward Human-Agent Competition in TAC SCM. In Workshop: Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) at Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009) (pp. 63-72). Pasadena, USA: AAAI Press.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2008). Architectures for agents in TAC SCM. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents.
- Ketter, W., Batchu, Arun, Berosik, Gary & McCreary, Dan (2008). A Semantic Web Architecture for Advocate Agents to Determine Preferences and Facilitate Decision Making. In ICEC08. Innsbruck, Austria.
- Ketter, W., Collins, John & Gini, Maria (2008). A Survey of Agent Designs for TAC SCM. In Workshop for Trading Agent Design and Analysis. Chicago, USA.
- Ketter, W., Heck, E. van & Zuidwijk, R.A. (2008). The Application of Intelligent Personalized Agents for Buyer Decision Empowerment at the Dutch Flower Auction. In WITS08. Paris, France.
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2007). A Predictive Empirical Model for Pricing and Resource Allocation Decisions. In ICEC07. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2007). Pricing and Resource Allocation for Intelligent Trading Agents using Economic Regimes. In ISIS07. Hyderabad, India.
- Ketter, W., Sodomka, Eric, Agovic, Amrudin, Collins, John & Gini, Maria (2006). Strategic Sales Management in an Autonomous Trading Agent for TAC SCM. In AAAI06 (pp. 1943-1944).
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2005). A Computational Approach to Predicting Economic Regimes in Automated Exchanges. In WITS05 (pp. 147-152).
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2005). Identifying and Forecasting Economic Regimes in TAC SCM. In IJCAI05TADA (pp. 53-60).
- Ketter, W. (2005). Dynamic Regime Identification and Prediction Based on Observed Behavior in Electronic Marketplaces. In AAAI05 (pp. 1646-1647). Pittsburgh.
- Ketter, W., Kryzhnyaya, Elena, Damer, Steven, McMillen, Colin, Agovic, Amrudin, Collins, John & Gini, Maria (2004). Analysis and Design of Supply-Driven Strategies in TAC-SCM. In Workshop: Trading Agent Design and Analysis at Third Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (pp. 44-51).
- Ketter, W., Kryzhnyaya, Elena, Damer, Steven, McMillen, Colin, Agovic, Amrudin, Collins, John & Gini, Maria (2004). MinneTAC Sales Strategies for Supply Chain TAC. In AAMAS04 (pp. 1372-1373). New York.
- Ketter, W., Babanov, Alexander & Gini, Maria (2003). An Evolutionary Framework for Studying Behaviors of Economic Agents. In AAMAS03 (pp. 1030-1031). Melbourne, Australia.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2002). A Multi-Agent Negotiation Testbed for Contracting Tasks with Temporal and Precedence Constraints. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 7(1), 35-57.
- Ketter, W. (1998). Electrical Design and Electrical Modeling for IC-Packages and Board Connectors. In Thesis (German) (pp. 1-111). University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany.
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Books
- Ketter, Wolfgang, Poutre, Han La, Sadeh, Norman, Shehory, Onn & Walsh, William (2010). Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
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Book contributions (8)
- van Heck, E. & Ketter, W. (2012). Challenges for Software Agents Supporting Decision- Makers in Trading Flowers Worldwide. In Web Information Systems and Technologies (101) (pp. 32-39). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
- Groves, William, Collins, John, Ketter, Wolfgang & Gini, Maria (2010). Analyzing market interactions in a multi agent supply chain environment. In Rao Ray, Raghu Santaman, Mike Shaw & Raj Sharman (Eds.), Exploring the grand challenges for next generation E-business: 8th workshop on E-Business, WEB 2009 (pp. 44-58). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
- Ketter, Wolfgang, Collins, John & Gini, Maria (2009). Coordinating Decisions in a Supply Chain Trading Agent. In Wolfgang Ketter, Han La Poutre, Norman Sadeh, Onn Shehory & William Walsh (Eds.), Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
- Collins, John, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2008). Flexible Decision Support in a Dyanmic Business Network. In Peter Vervest & Diederik van Liere (Eds.), The Network Factor - Edited Volume of the 3rd Smart Business Network Conference (pp. 233-246). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
- Ketter, W., Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2008). Strategic Sales Management Guided By Economic Regimes. In Peter Vervest, Eric van Heck, Kenneth Preiss & Louis-Francois Pau (Eds.), Edited Volume of the 2nd Smart Business Network Initiative Discovery Event (pp. 245-264). Springer Verlag.
- Ketter, Wolfgang, Collins, John, Gini, Maria, Gupta, Alok & Schrater, Paul (2006). Identifying and forecasting economic regimes in TAC SCM. In Han la Poutre, Norman Sadeh & Sverker Janson (Eds.), Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce & Trading Agent Design and Analysis (pp. 113-125). Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
- Babanov, Alexander, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2004). An Evolutionary Framework for Large-scale Experimentation in Multi-agent Systems. In T. Wagner (Ed.), MAS Problem Spaces and Their Implications to Achieving Globally Coherent Behavior. Kluwer.
- Babanov, Alexander, Ketter, W. & Gini, Maria (2003). An Evolutionary Approach for Studying Heterogenous Strategies in Electronic Markets. In G..Di.Marzo Serugendo, A. Karageorgos, O..F. Rana & F. Zambonelli (Eds.), Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA 2003) (pp. 157-168). LNCS 2977, Springer Verlag.
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Doctoral thesis
- Ketter, W. (2007, januari 21). Identification and Prediction of Economic Regimes to Guide Decision Making in Multi-Agent Marketplaces. University of Minnesota (University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, USA). Prom./coprom.: Maria Gini & Alok Gupta.
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Editorial position (1)
Journal Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Role Associate Editor Start date 01-08-2007
| 2012/2013 | ERIM/CentER Workshop on Information Management Research |
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| ECTS: | 5 |
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| 2012/2013 | Multi Agent Systems Research |
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| ECTS: | 5 |
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| 2011/2012 | ERIM/CentER Workshop on Information Management Research |
| Code: | BERM.ASC.008 |
| ECTS: | 5 |
| Course level: | Advanced Specialisation |
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| 2011/2012 | Multi Agent Systems Research |
| Code: | BERM.ASC.013 |
| ECTS: | 5 |
| Course level: | Advanced Specialisation |
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| Visiting address |
| Office: T09-07 |
| Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 |
| 3062 PA, Rotterdam |
| Netherlands |
| Postal address |
| Postbus 1738 |
| 3000 DR, Rotterdam |
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