Mobile agents are self-contained processes, dispatched by their principal, roaming the Internet to access data and services, and carrying out their decision-making and problem-solving tasks remotely. M-commerce, the traditional E-commerce combined with mobile devices and wireless networks, is likely to become a major business model in the near future. Due to the flexibility and mobility, mobile...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is an emerging discipline involving applications, mobile devices, middleware, and wireless networks. While most of existing e-commerce applications can be modified to run in a wireless environment, m-commerce also involves many more new applications that become possible only due to the wireless infrastructure. These applications include mobile financial services, us...

Software agents are one of the means to relieve users from searching, sorting and filtering information in their daily work. For fast and efficient implementation of agents there needs to be a powerful infrastructure supporting collaboration and coordination between agents and their users. In this document we propose such an infrastructure where the main focus is on modularity, efficiency, real...

The Internet and the World Wide Web provide a global virtual marketplace. However, there is little information about the behavior of e-commerce users worldwide. The goal of the paper is twofold. First, we give an overview of the architecture and implementation of the Miner Family of Web Agents for e-commerce. Then, we present a quantitative study of the user behavior of a large e-broker (i.e., ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the global economy, with brick-and-mortar businesses particularly hard-hit. In Angola, lockdown imposed in response to forced many companies close their doors, leading widespread job losses and economic hardship. However, also presented an opportunity for that could adopt m-commerce or other alternative sales channels. This study aims understand ...

Supportive communication has conventional tremendous attention for wireless networks. Most existing works on supportive infrastructure are focused on linklevel corporeal layer issues. Consequently, the impacts of supportive infrastructure on network-level upper layer issues, such as topology control, map-reading and network capacity, are largely disregarded. In this article, we propose a Capaci...

by the explosive growth of b2b e-commerce transactions in international supply chains and the rapid increase of business documents in iran’s cross-border trading, effective management of trade processes over borders is vital in b2b e-commerce systems. structure of the localized model in this paper is based on three major layers of a b2b e-commerce infrastructure, which are messaging layer, busi...

Agent technology has been applied to the Electronic Commerce domain, giving birth to what is known as agent-mediated Electronic Commerce. Current real-world applications refer only to the delegation of product or merchant brokering tasks to software agents. Automated negotiation is a less explored stage in this field, since it implies the trust of bargaining power to software agents. We here pr...

• China is a large economy with a large absolute gross domestic product (GDP). However, its huge population brings its GDP and wealth level per capita way below developed countries and in-line with many developing countries. • Between 1990 and 2001, China’s economy experienced rapid growth (7-8% on average) as did its telecommunications, information technology (IT) and Internet infrastructures ...