Supporting Mobility and Negotiation in Agent-Based E-Commerce
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Leila Alem · IGI Global eBooks · 2011
This chapter presents recent advances in agent-based e-commerce, addressing the issues of mobility and negotiation. It reports on selected research efforts, focusing on developing intelligent agents for automating the e-commerce negotiation and coalition formation processes and mobile agents for supporting deployment of intelligent e-commerce agents and enabling mobile e-commerce applications. Issues such as trade-off between decision-making in negotiation and mobility capabilities of the agents are also discussed in this paper.