Agent theories, architectures, and languages: a survey
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Agents for process coherence in virtual enterprises
Communications of the ACM
Technical opinion: The real challenges of mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Brokerage between buyer and seller agents using constraint satisfaction problem models
Decision Support Systems
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Nomad: Mobile Agent System for an Internet-Based Auction House
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Internet Computing
MAgNET: Mobile Agents for Networked Electronic Trading
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge
E-Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
Mobile agents in distributed network management
Communications of the ACM - A game experience in every application
A brokering protocol for agent-based e-commerce
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Mobile agent and CORBA technologies in the broadband intelligent network
IEEE Communications Magazine
An integrated management environment for network resources and services
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Mobile agents - enabling technology for active intelligent network implementation
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Continuous auditing with a multi-agent system
Decision Support Systems
Building a Multiple-Criteria Negotiation Support System
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Securing dynamic itineraries for mobile agent applications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Building an automatic e-tendering system on the Semantic Web
Decision Support Systems
Technical construction methods for e-marketplace
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
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The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payments. It houses infrastructure, facilitates transactions, and matches buyers with sellers. A mobile-agent-based marketplace allows corporate data to be maintained by local buyers and sellers and transferred to the marketplace only when orders are matched. This provides the participating companies with autonomy and independence. This study proposes a framework for using mobile agents to demonstrate autonomous behavior in the electronic marketplace. A prototype system is developed to demonstrate the implementation of this framework. Furthermore, a simple simulation design is used to explore the performance of mobile agents using two different product-purchasing policies. Statistics regarding execution time are collected and analyzed. The results suggest that mobile agents can easily aggregate orders and shorten the execution time for matching orders.