Design and implementation of a mobile agent-based auction system

Author

Chan, Henry C B ; Ho, Irene S K ; Lee, Raymond S T

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., China

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

740

Abstract

The online auction is an important e-commerce application which enables the buying and selling of goods through a dynamic pricing strategy. This paper presents the design and implementation of a multi-access and multi-functional auction system. Users can access the auction system through the Web, WAP-enabled devices and agents, particularly mobile agents. The auction system supports different types of auctions, including English auction, Dutch auction, Yankee auction, Sealed Bid auction and Double auction. In particular, we discuss the mobile agent-based approach in detail by presenting the protocol for implementing different types of auctions

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; mobile computing; software agents; Double auction; Dutch auction; English auction; Internet commerce; Sealed Bid auction; WAP-enabled devices; Yankee auction; dynamic pricing strategy; e-commerce application; mobile agent-based auction system; multi-access multi-functional auction system; online auction; Access protocols; Business; Concurrent computing; Handheld computers; Internet; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Object oriented modeling; Pricing; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2001. PACRIM. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7080-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953738

Filename

953738