Middleware and mobile agents experiences in e-commerce

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

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002

This paper describes the realization of a business-to-business intermediation e-commerce platform. The main concern derives from the usage of two emerging technologies, namely the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and the Mobile Agent Technology (MAT). The key issues that are addressed in this paper are the following. First, the scenario of the proposed system. Second, the definition of the required functionality and its design by means of appropriate service components based on J2EE principles. Third, the exploitation of agents in terms of their detailed design and implementation activities. Finally, the evaluation of the two interoperable technologies.

2001

Agents and mobile appliances offer the promise to change the way people purchase products by connecting the physical presence of stores with their Internet representation and delegating consumer tasks to intelligent pieces of autonomous software. The archetypical example is the shopping mall of the future; shoppers use personal digital assistants (PDA) to interact with store services while in the mall, on the way to the store, or in the store itself. Mall-wide services, such as directories and locators are also available through the PDA. Intelligent agents represent both shoppers and the store to negotiate for desired products based on shopper preferences. A lightweight version of this scenario was implemented with a multi-agent system framework (Zeus), Jornadas, CoolTown infrared beacons, and additional support software. Experience suggests that while the scenario is compelling, current agent building tools are insufficient for rapidly prototyping multi-agent societies and a more s...

2003

ABSTRACT The present short paper discusses the application of mobile agent technology in the e-commerce domain. It describes the architecture of MATE (Mobile Agent Technology for Ecommerce), which aims on delivering a solution for current and emerging B2B and B2C e-commerce requirements and outlines its implementation.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology & Security , 2012

The concept of e-commerce has emerged as a revolution to execute business activities over internet. This architecture of e-commerce is developed on the foundation of client server model. As a result, reduced cost of production and unrestricted physical boundaries are the major benefits offered by e-commerce over traditional commerce. Though these benefits have attracted great number of users but still there are some drawbacks that have restricted to completely transfer traditional model to e-commerce model. One of the drawbacks is the large bandwidth requirement for an e-commerce application, deployed using client server model. Second is efficient information retrieval and autonomy in application are hard to achieve in client server model. To overcome these drawbacks Mobile Agent Technology has been proposed. Though mobile agent technology over comes the limitations of client server model but simultaneously use of mobile agent technology enhances the security requirement of an e-commerce application. In this paper a hybrid approach of client server model and mobile agent technology to develop an e-commerce application is proposed, to overcome the limitations of both the models.

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.

2003

The business trends to trade more complex goods and services in inter-connected e-marketplaces and to use mobile communication channels drive the requirements for the next generation of emarketplaces including more advanced trading, mobile access and user support capabilities. This paper presents an attempt to address the above requirements by proposing an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace solution called InterMarket that integrates mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents in e-marketplaces. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in inter-connected e-marketplaces with an add-on component to an existing commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper presents a general concept and solution of InterMarket, and discusses the proposed approach in the context of related research in mobile ecommerce agents and intelligent agent-mediated e-commerce.

Proceedings Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 2002

a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the proposed solution and approach for InterMarket, and relates it to the existing research on mobile e-commerce agents and intelligent agent-mediated e-commerce.

Mobile Agents, 1997

This paper presents a mobile agent approach that aims at satisfying the following requirements of open Internet-based electronic service markets: the mobile agent system should be usable by any Internet user without a need for specifically configurated non-...

2002

The business trends to trade more complex goods and services in inter-connected e-marketplaces and use mobile communication channels drive the requirements for the next generation of e-marketplaces including more advanced trading, mobile access and user support capabilities. This paper presents an attempt, called InterMarket, to address the above requirements by proposing an intelligent mobile agent based emarketplace solution integrating mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in emarketplaces with an add-on component to an existing commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews a general concept and solution of InterMarket, and discusses the proposed approach in the context of related research in mobile e-commerce agents and agentmediated e-commerce.