AGENT FABRICATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION FOR AGENT-BASED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Sheng-Uei Guan () and Fangming Zhu
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Sheng-Uei Guan: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore
Fangming Zhu: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2002, vol. 01, issue 03, 473-489

Abstract: In the last decade, agent-based e-commerce has emerged as a potential role for the next generation of e-commerce. How to create agents for e-commerce applications has become a serious consideration in this field. This paper proposes a new scheme named agent fabrication and elaborates its implementation in multi-agent systems based on the SAFER (Secure Agent Fabrication, Evolution and Roaming) architecture. First, a conceptual structure is proposed for software agents carrying out e-commerce activities. Furthermore, agent module suitcase is defined to facilitate agent fabrication. With these definitions and facilities in the SAFER architecture, the formalities of agent fabrication are elaborated. In order to enhance the security of agent-based e-commerce, an infrastructure of agent authorization and authentication is integrated in agent fabrication. Implementation and prototype applications show that the proposed agent fabrication scheme brings forth a potential solution for creating agents in agent-based e-commerce applications.

Keywords: Software agent; e-commerce; agent fabrication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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