Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agent-mediated electronic commerce systems by describing their roles in the context of a Consumer Buying Behavior (CBB) model. The CBB model we present augments traditional marketing models with concepts from Software Agents research to ...

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agent-mediated electronic commerce systems by describing their roles in the context of a Consumer Buying Behavior (CBB) model. The CBB model we present augments traditional marketing models with concepts from Software Agents research to ...

The Internet hosts a rapidly number of services for remote computing. The second generation of services are distributed method management systems (DMMS) that support consumers and providers to participate in electronic markets for methods (programs, scripts, etc.). We suggest to build standardized DMMS based on CORBA, instead of heterogeneous, domain speciic solutions. An architecture is propos...