A Mobile Intelligent Agent-Based Architecture for E-Business

Zhiyong Weng and Thomas Tran
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Zhiyong Weng: University of Ottawa, Canada
Thomas Tran: University of Ottawa, Canada

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 2007, vol. 2, issue 4, 63-80

Abstract: This article proposes a mobile intelligent agent-based e-business architecture that allows buyers and sellers to perform business at remote locations. An e-business participant can generate a mobile, intelligent agent via some mobile devices (such as a personal digital assistant or mobile phone) and dispatch the agent to the Internet to do business on his/her behalf. This proposed architecture promises a number of benefits: First, it provides great convenience for traders as business can be conducted anytime and anywhere. Second, since the task of finding and negotiating with appropriate traders is handled by a mobile, intelligent agent, the user is freed from this time-consuming task. Third, this architecture addresses the problem of limited and expensive connection time for mobile devices: A trader can disconnect a mobile device from its server after generating and launching a mobile intelligent agent. Later on, the trader can reconnect and call back the agent for results, therefore minimizing the connection time. Finally, by complying with the standardization body FIPA, this flexible architecture increases the interoperability between agent systems and provides high scalability design for swiftly moving across the network.

Date: 2007
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