The Usability of Agent-Based Simulation in Decision Support System of E-Commerce Architecture
ŠPERKA Roman, SLANINOVÁ Kateřina · International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business · 2012
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has the potential to improve the competitiveness of the enterprises.A decision support system, used in e-commerce, is a term used to describe any software engine that enhances the user's ability to make decisions.The paper presents a new approach for decision support system modeling.This approach is applied by a modification and extension of existing decision support system architecture by multi-agent technology and agent-based simulation models.Multi-agent technology is one of the fastest growing fields of information and communication technology -new agent-based services, products, and applications are being developed almost every day.Agent-based simulation model is applied to coordinate, control, and simulate the architecture of decision support system, used in e-commerce.The proposed architecture improves the existing decision support systems and gains competitive advantage.