Title :
A mobile negotiation agent embedded hybrid online purchasing system
Author :
Huang, Runhe ; Yamazaki, Takeshi ; Ma, Jianhua
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Hosei Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a mobile negotiation agent embedded hybrid online purchasing system (MineAgeHops in short) with three emphases: agent´s mobility, evolvable negotiation model, and hybrid architecture. As in the physical world, a buyer agent can travel to a virtual shop resided in a remote host for obtaining information about a product and directly negotiating on the product with a seller in the virtual shop. Human negotiation is a complex process. The evolvable negotiation model makes effort to reflect different negotiation levels with increasing knowledge and experience as time goes. A hybrid of centralized and decentralized architecture can overcome network bottleneck problem as well as improve purchasing efficiency by enabling agents´ mobility and flexibility.
Keywords :
Internet; client-server systems; electronic commerce; electronic trading; mobile agents; negotiation support systems; purchasing; agent mobility; buyer agent; embedded hybrid online purchasing system; human negotiation; hybrid architecture; mobile negotiation agent; virtual shop; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Electronic mail; Embedded computing; Humans; Information science; Java; Mobile agents; Network servers; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2087-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284035