of thesis entitled ‘Design and Implementation of the Consumer Buying Process for Mobile AGent-based Internet Commerce System (MAGICS)’ submitted by Perry Pui Yi Lam for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in October 2004. With the advent of software agent technologies, there has been considerable interest in the development of agent-based e-commerce system...

This paper proposes a web-based agent platform for E-commerce which allows humans and software agents to perform automatic auctions over the Internet. Internet-based auction is a pro table, exciting and dynamic part of E-commerce. However, the lack of standard on negotiation protocol between agents and an auctioneer makes full automation of E-commerce infeasible. Hence, we design a complete arc...

In the recent past, a lot of work has been done in establishing public key infrastructures (PKIs) for electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications. Unfortunately, most of these PKIs can only be used to authenticate the participants of e-commerce applications; they can't be used to properly authorize the participants and to control access to system resources accordingly. Consequently, these PKI...

In this paper, we explore how electronic commerce, the World-Wide Web in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and informationdriven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; with many market-intermediaries (agents and brokers who connect buyers and s...

There is an increasing need for various e-service, e-commerce and e-business sites to provide personalized recommendations to on-line customers. This paper proposes a new type of personalized recommendation agents called fuzzy cognitive agents. Fuzzy cognitive agents are designed to give personalized suggestions based on the user’s current personal preferences, other user’s common preferences, ...

We investigate a set of problems that appear central at this stage of development of e -commerce. In the business to consumer markets the fundamental constraints are the inadequacy of web sites d esign and implementation, combined with a lack of effective strategies of marketing on line. This suggests that the question of intermediation in electronic markets has been poorly investigated. Recent...

Electronic commerce technology is more and more present and people are getting connected together. Companies and users want to automate their task and discover new business opportunities. Many standards and initiatives have been already proposed. Most of them focus on business-tobusiness protocol definition. Rosettanet, cxml, xcbl and bizTalk are only a few examples. Users and companies then ha...

This paper presents work-in-progress towards the development of an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace system called InterMarket. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in e-marketplaces based on integration of mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents offered as an add-on component to a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the pro...