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Most discussion on the current hot topic of e-commerce focuses either on the relationship between the customer and the supplier or on the security of these interactions. In this paper we present an architecture for building business-to-business e-commerce applications. The primary objective is to develop a lightweight infrastructure for building and maintaining collaborations from partners dist...

Abstract of thesis entitled “Design and implementation of intelligent auction agents for Mobile AGent-based Internet Commerce System (MAGICS)” submitted by Jie Zhang for the degree of Master of Philosophy at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in January 2004.of thesis entitled “Design and implementation of intelligent auction agents for Mobile AGent-based Internet Commerce System (MAGICS)” su...

International e-commerce has been developed as an efficient means of global transaction, and it may be further improved, especially in B2C, if adapted to the conditions of local markets, such as economy, infrastructure and culture. To obtain the insight in the internationalisation of e-commerce, we investigated online shopping preferences in three nations – the US (well developed in e-commerce)...

One of our goals when building the University of Michigan Digital Library UMDL has been to prototype an architecture that can continually recon gure itself as users contents and services come and go We have worked toward this goal by developing a multi agent information economy where agents buy and sell information goods and services from each other using our commerce and communication protocol...

My research is in multiagent systems, an interdisciplinary field at the interface of computer science, game theory and operations research. My goal is to develop computationally efficient methods for intelligent decisionmaking in large-scale multiagent systems. With the ubiquity of such systems in all aspects of modern life, including electronic commerce, infrastructure security, cybersecurity,...

With the implementation of the modernization of Xinjiang comprehensively promote a new round of western development strategy, improve of the network infrastructure , more and more companies start to involved in e-commerce, e-commerce has become an important means of enterprise business activities. But due to the limitations of the objective and subjective reasons, Xinjiang enterprise e-business...