Communications of the ACM
Money in electronic commerce: digital cash, electronic fund transfer, and Ecash
Communications of the ACM
The coordination language facility: coordination of distributed objects
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue on distributed object management
Distributed Coordination and Workflow on the World Wide Web
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on groupware and the World Wide Web
Coordination as negotiated transactions
Object orientation with parallelism and persistence
Semantics and conversations for an agent communication language
Readings in agents
Multiparty negotiation of dynamic distributed object services
Science of Computer Programming
Development of a Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe
ESORICS '96 Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security: Computer Security
NetBill: An Internet commerce system optimized for network delivered services
COMPCON '95 Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference
Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Coordinating distributed applets with Shade
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
Distributed Print on Demand Systems in the Xpect Framework
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on electronic commerce
Using Agents to Enable Collaborative Work
IEEE Internet Computing
MAgNET: Mobile Agents for Networked Electronic Trading
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Modeling the Architecture for Component-Based E-commerce System
ICFEM '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods: Formal Methods and Software Engineering
An object-oriented architecture for intelligent virtual receptionists
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Intelligent agents for electronic commerce
A multi-agent framework for distributed theorem proving
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
HSI'03 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Human.society@internet
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Electronic commerce is emerging as one of the most important applications on the Internet, with the potential to revolutionize the whole structure of retail merchandising and shopping. There is already a need for an information technology infrastructure that goes well beyond the simple capabilities offered by the current development environments for Internet applications. For electronic commerce to really take off, however, it will have to give shoppers options not available through traditional commercial channels. This implies the further need for an infrastructure that can support complex and flexible services to manage customer tailored requests in the context of highly dynamic networks and federations of providers. To achieve this level of support will mean using the functionalities now considered to be whole applications as the elementary building blocks of e-commerce applications. Among these functionalities are: transactional payment; workflow; and multiparty agreement. To address these issues, we developed XPect, a generic framework for electronic commerce. The XPect framework supports the integration of multiple component functionalities. It is implemented in the Coordination Language Facility, an object based distributed application development tool. CLF assumes an object model of autonomous agents that can engage in interactions, more sophisticated than those in the traditional object paradigm. In addition, CLF allows for dynamically adding new services and for coordinating the access to multiple services