Enhancing e-Commerce with Intelligent Agents in Collaborative e-Communities

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of and interdisciplinary research project involving an intelligent agent-based framework for collaborative e-commerce applications. A multi-agent system (MAS) architecture for large collaborative e-commerce environments is designed and developed, where a number of geographically dispersed users (customers/merchants) can participate. This architecture not only applies agent technologies in e-commerce system in novel manners, but also incorporates privacy law and legislation into its technical design, and in that respect it is different from other existing e-commerce systems