Although a large volume of literature is available on mobile commerce (m-commerce), the topic is still under development and offers potential opportunities for further research and applications. Since the subject is at the stage of development, a review of the literature on m-commerce with the objective of bringing to the fore the state-of-art in m-commerce research and applications will initia...

E-Commerce is a distributed computing environment with dynamic relationships among a large number of autonomous service requesters, brokers and providers. With the increasing automation of e-commerce applications, we will see the use of software agents that cooperate to perform business transactions. Multi-agent cooperative transactions are different in their requirements both from conventional...

INTRODUCTION This article presents an overview of prevailing trends and developments shaping mobile commerce (m-commerce) and the wireless economy. A review of wireless telecommunications infrastructure attempts to demystify the evolving technology landscape. Mobile Internet deployment and adoption demographics are highlighted, as are innovative wireless applications and current m-commerce issues.

The paradigm of mobile agents offers a powerful and flexible opportunity to develop distributed applications on a high-level of abstraction. One of the most interesting tasks for mobile agents is an active search for relevant information in non-local domains on behalf of their users. A mobile agent will be sent out on behalf of an user to various host servers in the Internet and to find informa...

Enterprises cooperate more extensively with other enterprises in various forms. These collaboration forms need suitable infrastructures and supporting applications to realize the collaboration. This paper presents new ideas and requirements for such an integration infrastructure. The evolution of enterprise business systems is accompanied by an evolution in the integration domain. The former re...

The Internet and the proliferation of inexpensive computing power in the form of clusters of workstations or PCs provide the basic hardware infrastructure for business to business electronic commerce in small and medium enterprises. Unfortunately, the corresponding software infrastructure is still missing. In this paper we show a way to develop appropriate tools for electronic commerce by descr...

We study the development of a distributed, agent-based, simulation environment where autonomous agents execute e-commerce contracts. We present a multi-agent architecture in which contracts are represented as a set of commitments that an agent must be capable of monitoring and reason with in order to be able to verify that the contract is not violated during interaction. We employ the JADE agen...

Electronic commerce is becoming an increasingly important channel for retail commerce. There are a large number of e-commerce sites on the Internet. Intelligent agents have been studied very widely in the field of artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. There have been several researches on agent-mediated electronic commerce. In particular, we focus on volume discount mechanism based o...

This paper descripbes an open, flexible infrastructure to support virtual organisations using mediator agents. When applied in businessto-business electronic commerce, the mediators allows partners to exchange rich business information, and act in an agile and coordinated manner. As an example, we have created a demonstration application in the domain of telecommunications service provision, in...