Mobile agents for e-commerce

Journal of Applied Information Science, 2023

The mobile agent (MA) paradigm has garnered a significant amount of interest over the course of the recent past few years. In spite of the fact that MAs have been the source of a substantial amount of enthusiasm in the academic community, they have not yet produced a significant number of applications in the real world. One of the most important reasons for this is that there is a dearth of research that quantitatively compares and contrasts the efficacy of conventional methods with that of mobile agents. The study presents an implementation of an e-commerce application that makes use of mobile agents and makes a contribution to such an assessment. The current mobile agent apps that are used in the field of e-commerce are categorized, and the underlying mobility patterns are uncovered. These, in turn, establish a number of different implementation options that make use of the conventional client-server and mobile agent paradigms. This paper outlines the implementation method that should be used when integrating mobile agents into an electronic marketplace. Mobile agent may boost e-commerce and give new approaches for designing intelligent applications. The fundamental elements of e-commerce agents are their autonomy, their flexibility, their capacities to observe, analyze, and act in their encompassing surroundings, as well as the power to interact with other mobile agents to solve complicated issues. The autonomy of agents implies the adaptation to participate in conversations governed by processes not known in advance, while their mobility means such discussions taking place at distant places. This work attempts at integrating adaptability with mobility by explaining the mobile agents emerging in the system and their fundamental interactions. Furthermore, this study explains the reasons why utilization of mobile agents inside the recommended framework.

… of E-Commerce, E-Government and …, 2006

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology, 2017

Mobile agents are an imminent technology for developing applications in mobile, distributed and pervasive computing. They offer a broad spectrum of features like autonomy; migrate to remote computers and process data to save remote connections. Mobile agents can be applied to a broad domain: network management, sensor network, grid computing, web services, and data mining. Numerous mobile agent systems have been developed, while some have been outdated and no longer in use others are in a continuous process of development, offering a variety of features. With the introduction of new computing platforms, to take advantage of mobile agent technology one must develop distributed applications that can cater to the needs. In this survey paper, we evaluate some of the existing mobile agent systems.

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications, 2012

2012

Telecommunications technologies are advanced; they introduced new technologies to meet the needs of individuals and organizations to make commercial transactions, where we find the birth of e-commerce after the emergence of the Internet. But this approach has limits like the use of a client / server model, which limit the use of these transactions in anytime and anywhere. Recently and after the emergence of the wireless networking, the commerce increase the range of the E-commerce applications in anytime and anywhere by the technology of mobile commerce. In this article, we propose an approach of mobile commerce based mobile agent with the aim to deploy the mobile agent paradigm for mobile commerce applications.

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 2005

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2000

Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being integrated into commercial products. However, despite the positive results, we feel that mobile agent technology is still not ready to enter the path of mainstream software development. This is the reason why this technology has not yet gain large acceptance by the developers of real applications, despite the large number of interesting experiences already available. In our perspective, one of the main reasons for this situation arises from the traditional approach to mobile agent technology. This approach, based on the familiar concept of mobile agent distributed platforms as extensions of the operating system, focuses too much on mobile agents and associated issues (mobility, agent lifecycle, security, coordination, etc.) and provides poor support for the development of applications where mobile agents are just one of several available technologies. Learning from past experience, we are now working on a new approach where the focus is brought back to the applications and mobile agents become just one the tools available to develop distributed systems. This provides a much lighter framework for application-based mobile agents This paper presents the lessons learned from our previous project and discusses this new concept we are developing: application-centric mobile agent systems. * Mobile agents do impose more complex security problems in fully open environments where there is no user accountability (for authentication and authorization). Nevertheless, most applications are not deployed in that kind of environments.

Abstract—Mobile Agents are a well-known programming,paradigm nowadays. There is a multitude of research concerning Mobile Agent Systems with emphasize on agent coordination, agent languages and agent migration technology. On the one hand, it is often argued, that Mobile Agents are well-suited for the use in the Internet and especially with Mobile Devices and roaming users. On the other hand, there are only few publications describing the actual implementation of a Mobile Agent System for Mobile Devices. In this paper we present our implementation of the Mobile Agent System Okeanos for the use in mobile environments with emphasize in agent routing and forwarding.

2005

Among features often attributed to software agents are autonomy and mobility. Autonomy of e-commerce agents involves adaptability to engage in negotiations governed by mechanisms not known in advance, while their mobility entails such negotiations taking place at remote locations. This paper aims at combining adaptability with mobility, by joining rule-based mechanism representation with modular agent design, and at UML-formalizing selected aspects of the resulting system. Furthermore, we discuss the issue of agent mobility and argue why such agents have been proposed for the system under consideration.

IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering, 2012

The mobile applications are one of the most important utilities of modern communication world. Currently this technology is getting compact to provide compatibility and accessibility to the users with a better option of handling. This research is based on the mobile and m-commerce technology, a fastest growing technology of today. The m-commerce technology provides various services like Mobile ticketing, Mobile banking, Mobile location based services, Mobile auctions, Mobile purchasing and so on. This represents an incredible chance to enable mobile devices as universal device for mobile commerce applications. We have explored an important application view of mobile technology i.e. intelligent multi-agent system with an example application of hotel reservation through mobile phones that will not only enable the mobile phone users to access the services through internet but also provide ultimate mobility without any hassle of communication. We also explained the structure of the system with the incorporation of mobile software agent technologies.