Abstract
With the development of Internet computing and software agent technologies, agent-based e-commerce is emerging. How to create agents for e-commerce applications has become an important issue along the way to success. We propose a factory-based approach to support agent fabrication in e-commerce and elaborate a design based on the SAFER (Secure Agent Fabrication, Evolution and Roaming) framework. The details of agent fabrication, modular agent structure, agent life cycle, as well as advantages of agent fabrication are presented. Product-brokering agent is employed as a practical agent type to demonstrate our design and Java-based implementation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 39-53 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Electronic Commerce Research and Applications |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Agent fabrication
- Agent framework
- Agent-based e-commerce
- Software agents