Electronic commerce is a driving force for IT. Mobile agents provit from this development, and offer substantial advantages for certain electronic commerce applications in return. Yet, a number of criteria should be applied to electronic commerce applications to assess which areas are best suited for mobile agents. A major requirement to build confidence in mobile agent technology is the availa...

To automate most of commerce time-consuming stages of the buying process, software agent's technologies have been proposed and employed in different transaction stages of e-commerce. The agents in e-negotiation dialogs based on their owner requirements until reaching agreement on one or multi issues of the negotiation. In addition, in many real conditions negotiation, negotiation agents have on...

Intelligent agents represent a new breed of software with significant potential for a wide range of Internet applications. They have been successfully used for personal assistants, intelligent user interfaces, and managing electronic mail. Recently, agents have been applied to electronic commerce, promising a revolution in the way we conduct business, whether business-to-business, business-to-c...

Although the adoption of e-commerce is widely studied in the industrialized world, only a small number of these studies focus on developing countries. An even smaller fraction of these studies focus on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which account for a high percent of the economy generated in developing countries. In this study, managers/owners of SMEs in Chile identified variables ...

This paper looks at the present standing of ecommerce in Saudi Arabia, as well as the challenges and strengths of Business to Customers (B2C) electronic commerce. Many studies have been conducted around the world in order to gain a better understanding of the demands, needs and effectiveness of online commerce. A study was undertaken to review the literature identifying the factors influencing ...

The e-commerce is a good research area because it is well fit ted the application of agents that interact each other with autonomy in dynamic environment. The ability of learning is one important point as intelligent agent supporting autonomy. In this research we develop learning algorithm suited e-commerce characteristic. We classify agents by learning level and delegate agent business with th...

Software agents, semi-intelligent autonomous tools, will play an increasing role in electronic commerce applications. In this paper we give an overview of the work conducted at MIT’s Media Laboratory on different types of agents for electronic commerce: from consumer to consumer “smart” classified ads systems, to merchant agents that provide integrative negotiation capabilities; from agents tha...

The laws governing commerce were established when buyer and seller met face to face. In Electronic commerce, goods and services are exchanged across a communications network, raising difficult new problems with respect to taxation, privacy, fraud protection, and restricted sales (such as pornography to minors, or weapons to criminals). Limitations of today’s electronic commerce infrastructure f...