InterMarket - towards intelligent mobile agent e-marketplaces

Abstract

This paper presents work-in-progress towards the development of an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace system called InterMarket. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in e-marketplaces based on integration of mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents offered as an add-on component to a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the proposed solution and approach for InterMarket, and relates it to the existing research on mobile e-commerce agents and intelligent agent-mediated e-commerce.

Analysis and Design of an Agent Searching Algorithm for e-Marketplaces

“…In Gartner Press Release, January 26, 2000 [8], Gartner Group predicted that the amount would hit 7.27 Trillion USD in 2004. Owing to boost the global Internet trading, many US-based e-marketplaces have been either joinventured or partnered with regional e-market organizations to make super e-marketplaces.…”

“…Its matching process contains four stages: selection, evaluation, filtering and assignment. In agent negotiation [8], research works focuses on developing automated reasoning mechanisms to simulate human traders. For example, in [8,10], fuzzy reasoning with knowledge representing is used for modeling human behavior.…”

“…In agent negotiation [8], research works focuses on developing automated reasoning mechanisms to simulate human traders. For example, in [8,10], fuzzy reasoning with knowledge representing is used for modeling human behavior. In [9], a negotiation protocol based on the cooperative game theory was proposed for power markets.…”

“…An electronic marketplace (e-marketplace) [5,8], shown in figure 1, is a platform for buyers and sellers exchanging products and services. A buyer first keys in the specification and price range of buying items.…”

“…Nowadays, many e-marketplace servers use intelligent agent techniques for web search, product recommendation, and even price negotiation [8,11,15]. Most related research in agent-mediated e-marketplaces focuses on brokering [1,16] and negotiations [13].…”