An integrated approach for developing e-commerce applications

  • Authors:
  • Francisco García-Sánchez;Rafael Valencia-García;Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a framework that merges various advanced information technologies for developing electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications. The use of e-commerce utilities provides several advantages to businesses. Intelligent agents can be used to facilitate some tasks from those that take place in a commercial transaction moving to a second generation of e-commerce applications. We present a prototype which integrates a multiagent system (composed by buyer and seller agents) with a Web application.