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

Xiaojun Shen, S. Shirmohammadi, C. Desmarais, N.D. Georganas, I. Kerr
2006 The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (CEC/EEE'06)  
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of and interdisciplinary research project involving an intelligent agent-based framework for collaborative ecommerce 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 eCommerce system in novel manners, but also
more » ... tes privacy law and legislation into its technical design, and in that respect it is different from other existing e-Commerce systems. Address The address property is used to locate the agent in the distributed environment. The proposed system is implemented over Microsoft .Net framework, and in that environment the address was an http address (ie.
doi:10.1109/cec-eee.2006.43 dblp:conf/wecwis/ShenSDGK06 fatcat:jgbywq45hjbrhkdst6kbfbgxmy