Title :
E-commerce agents and online negotiation process
Author :
Fathey, Amged ; Moawad, Ramadan
Author_Institution :
Modern Acad. in Maadi, Cairo
Abstract :
E-commerce agents have become more powerful tools for buying, selling and searching for products through the Internet. Significantly, making use of these computer agents reduces the time users spend on trading. E-commerce agents should have the ability to negotiate with each other and search the Internet for new products. Negotiation has become very interesting research issue. Therefore, this paper introduces an implementation of a formal model for E-commerce agent negotiation. The negotiation model takes into consideration parameters and utility functions to evaluate the transaction after each negotiation state
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; negotiation support systems; E-commerce agent; Internet; online negotiation process; trading; Consumer electronics; Electronic commerce; Humans; Internet; Mobile agents; Object oriented modeling; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Protocols; Warranties;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communications Technology, 2005. Enabling Technologies for the New Knowledge Society: ITI 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9270-1
DOI :
10.1109/ITICT.2005.1609642