Study of E-commerce Transaction System's Division of Labor Based on Multi-agent Simulation

Abstract

The e-commerce transaction system's division of labor of is an important problem. It is of great significance for evaluating the development level and forecast the development direction of e-commerce. However, there is a certain disparity between the current mainstream research model and the reality, which leads to a biased result. This paper puts forward to a definition of transaction efficiency based on transaction services, establishes a model of middleman's specialized production decision of transaction services on this basis, and uses multi-agent simulation to solve the model. The results show that the transaction efficiency is the impetus for the change of middlemen's division of labor level. The degree of economic specialization, price of commodities and transaction services and other associated factors also affect middlemen's division of labor.