Developing a JADE-Based Multi-Agent E-Commerce Environment
Amalia Pîrvănescu, Costin Bădică, Marcin Paprzycki · 2005
Agent technology is often claimed to be the silver bullet for the task of automating e-commerce business processes, to bring efficiency and profitability to businesses and individual users. Despite the fact that research on software agents can be traced at least as far back as the beginnings of the Internet, it is difficult to find successful large-scale agent-based e-commerce applications to confirm this claim. Our paper addresses this issue by discussing the development of an e-commerce system using a state-of-the-art agent platform -- JADE. At this stage, focus of our work is on implementing agents of different types / roles engaged in activities usually encountered in a real e-commerce environment.