Deploying Mobile And Intelligent Agents In Interconnected E-Marketplaces

  • Authors:
  • Ryszard Kowalczyk;Peter Braun;Ingo Mueller;Wilhelm Rossak;Bogdan Franczyk;Andreas Speck

  • Affiliations:
  • Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn 3122, Australia;Friedrich Schiller University, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 1-4, D-07743 Jena, Germany;Friedrich Schiller University, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 1-4, D-07743 Jena, Germany;Friedrich Schiller University, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 1-4, D-07743 Jena, Germany;University of Leipzig, Marschnerstr. 31, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany;Intershop Research, Intershop Tower, D-07740 Jena, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The business trends to trade more complex goods and services in inter-connected e-marketplaces and to use mobile communication channels drive the requirements for the next generation of e-marketplaces including more advanced trading, mobile access and user support capabilities. This paper presents an attempt to address the above requirements by proposing an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace solution called InterMarket that integrates mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents in e-marketplaces. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in inter-connected e-marketplaces with an add-on component to an existing commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper presents a general concept and solution of InterMarket, and discusses the proposed approach in the context of related research in mobile e-commerce agents and intelligent agent-mediated e-commerce.