Agent-enabling transformation of e-commerce portals with web services
David B. Ulmer, Lixin Tao · ACOS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science · 2006
Web services and middleware technologies are adopted to provide bi-directional communication channels between network-blind generic transaction agents and existing e-commerce portals with no modification to their existing functions. An action-word-based translation system is used to bridge the semantic gap between the agents and the e-business portals.