An e-commerce applications based on the multi-agent system

Abstract

In this paper we describe a multi-agent system which implements distributed computational system. The software architecture identifies distributed locations as abstractions of distributed computational system and various software agents as abstractions of different autonomous functional components. The interactions among agents within a system are the most critical for the application. Most common and one of the elementary types of e-commerce applications is consumer buying behavior. We propose a model of a general consumer buying behavior application using general multi-agent system to examine its expressiveness. By identifying specific roles of software agents and designing new specific interaction patterns for them we implement the commercial model.