Real-time Multi-Agents Architecture for E-commerce Servers

Abstract

Electronic commerce applications have strict timing constraints on the interactions between e-commerce servers and customers. Customers prefer real-time services, which mean immediate response from the server shortly after submission of a request. This trend of demand gives e-commerce servers high pressure, both on the software and the architecture they currently use. In this paper, we propose a real-time architecture for e-commerce servers that addresses the problem efficiently. We adopt a framework that permits the appropriate treatment of dynamic behaviours that are data interdependent, and reasoning about the communication protocols and internal mechanisms of client / server relationships in a real-time multi-agents based e-commerce application architecture.