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

fYear

2004

fDate

23-24 March 2004

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

227

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2087-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284035

Filename

1284035