Models and Protocol Structures for Software Agent Based Complex E-Commerce Transactions

  • Authors:
  • Guandong Wang;Amitabha Das

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • EC-Web 2001 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The use of autonomous software agents enable new types of complex transactions for electronic commerce where multiple agents can exchange their values to complete a single transaction. However, most of the existing transaction protocols support only simple transactions and are not sufficient for more flexible and complex transaction scenarios. In this paper, we provide a complex transaction model which describes the complex transaction as a transaction tree. Based on this structure, a protocol structure is provided to ensure strong fairness, non-repudiability, timeliness and atomicity of the distributed complex transactions.