MAgNET: Mobile Agents for Networked Electronic Trading

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.

Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century, 1998

In this paper we show how we have applied, in a current project, mobile agent technology to an industrial process in the field of textile manufacturing. The project involves several companies, each of which is a Europe-wide representative of one of the key phases of the textile production process (e.g. spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing and ready made clothing). The main contribution of this paper is the description of the agent-oriented application framework which integrates their business enterprlse information systems, to create a supply and distribution chain in the volatile (seasonal) environment of top fashion men's and women's wool garment manufacturing.

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.

International Conference on Computer and Computer Intelligence (ICCCI 2011), 2011

Current e-shopping systems use the Internet as its primary medium for transactions. e-shopping has grown in popularity over the years, mainly because people find it convenient and easy to buy various items comfortably from their office or home. This paper has proposed a personalized e-shopping system, which makes use of agent technology to enhance the automation and efficiency of shopping process in Internet commerce. The agent technology is used to enhance the customer"s needs which include availability, speedy response time, and efficiency. Agent for e-Shopping creates connectivity on an anytime-anywhereany-device-basis to provide the specific goods required by the consumers based on transaction cost optimization and scalability. The client agent connects with the controller agent which controls all the agent information. The controller agent sends the item information to the client agent and the client chooses items and puts in to the shopping cart. Finally the conclusion shows that the system performs efficiently and can help customers to save enormous time for Internet shopping.

2005

Agent technology is often claimed to be the most natural approach for automating e-commerce business processes. Despite these claims, up till now, the most successful e-commerce systems are still based on humans to make the most important decisions in various stages of an e-commerce transaction. Consequently, it is difficult to find successful actually implemented and working large-scale agent-based e-commerce applications to confirm agents superiority. Here, we discuss an abstract e-commerce environment that allows agents of different types to interact with each other and operate with an overarching goal of supporting an e-commerce transaction. A prototype system that implements this vision using JADE agent platform is also described. Finally, we report on experiments with the implemented system skeleton.

Software agent technology has been recognized as a promising alternative to develop next-generation ecommerce applications. In particular, mobile agents which help reduce network traffic and latency, support disconnected operations, and interoperate with heterogeneous environments make e-commerce more attractive. These agents with autonomy and intelligence carry out negotiations on behalf of users while extending mobility and ubiquity capabilities to them. In spite of some security concerns, the paper supports mobile agents which help realize real-world models of e-commerce. It proposes a distributed architecture to model human traders in e-commerce applications using multiagent technology. The architecture improves mobility, intelligence and capability of the trading agent.

2001

The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payments. The marketplace houses infrastructure, facilitates transactions, and matches buyers with sellers. An agent-based marketplace allows corporate data to be maintained by local buyers and sellers and transferred to the marketplace only when orders are matched. This provides participating companies with autonomy and independence. This study proposes a framework of using the mobile agent to demonstrate autonomous behavior in the electronic marketplace.

2016

This chapter explores the utilization of a multiagent system in the field of supply chain management for electronic business. It investigates the coordination and cooperation processes, and proposes and discusses a newly developed model for an enhanced and effective cooperation process for e-business. The contribution made by this research provides a theoretical solution and model for agents that adopt the enhanced strategy for e-business. Both large organizations and SMEs will benefit by increasing and expanding their businesses globally, and by participating and sharing with business partners to achieve common goals. As a consequence, the organizations involved will each earn more profit. INtrODUctION Today’s Internet-connected world has created an enormous revolution among business organizations. Nowadays, running a global business electronically is one of the most important emerging issues. Many researchers and software developers have been investigating and developing software ...

Concurrent Engineering, 2002

This paper is mainly concerned with putting forward a novel manufacturing chain model and a new scheduling model for manufacturing chains in networked manufacturing systems. The manufacturing chain model is formed by adopting extensive activity-networkdiagram workflow technique. The scheduling model is built upon mobile agent technologies, e.g. aglets. It includes two different scheduling levels. One is defined as the process scheduling which implements the scheduling logic for distributive manufacturing sites or manufacturing cells based on a specific manufacturing task. The other is the node scheduling which realizes the scheduling logic for manufacturing equipments based on specific working procedures or working paces. High-level scheduling aglet templates are created to support the operations at the levels of manufacturing sites or manufacturing cells. To complement, low-level scheduling aglet templates are created to support the operations such as working procedures or working paces over manufacturing equipments. As a result, the model is able to deal with dynamic manufacturing chains and their scheduling.

Decision Support Systems, 2005

The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payments. It houses infrastructure, facilitates transactions, and matches buyers with sellers. A mobile-agent-based marketplace allows corporate data to be maintained by local buyers and sellers and transferred to the marketplace only when orders are matched. This provides the participating companies with autonomy and independence. This study proposes a framework for using mobile agents to demonstrate autonomous behavior in the electronic marketplace. A prototype system is developed to demonstrate the implementation of this framework. Furthermore, a simple simulation design is used to explore the performance of mobile agents using two different product-purchasing policies. Statistics regarding execution time are collected and analyzed. The results suggest that mobile agents can easily aggregate orders and shorten the execution time for matching orders. D