Specification of Autonomous Agents in E-commerce Systems
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چکیده
We present a generic formal framework to specify e-commerce systems. Specifically, we introduce a formalism to represent the behavior of the agents involved in the system. We will concentrate only on the high level behavior, that is, the one related to the economic performance of the agents. Finally, we apply our framework to the specification of the e-commerce system Kasbah.
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