Commitment-based interoperation for e-commerce

Author

Xing, Jie ; Wan, Feng ; Rustogi, Sudhir K. ; Singh, Munindar P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

168

Abstract

Successful e-commerce presupposes techniques by which autonomous trading entities can interoperate. Although much progress has been made on data exchange and payment protocols, interoperation in the face of autonomy is still inadequately understood. Current techniques, designed for closed environments, support only the simplest interactions. We develop a multiagent approach for interoperation in e-commerce. This approach consists of: (1) a behavioral model to specify autonomous, heterogeneous agents representing different trading entities (businesses, consumers, brokers), (2) a metamodel that provides a language (based on XML) for specifying a variety of service agreements and accommodating exceptions and revisions, and (3) an execution architecture that supports persistent and dynamic (re)execution

Keywords

electronic commerce; electronic data interchange; hypermedia markup languages; multi-agent systems; open systems; XML; autonomous heterogeneous agents; autonomous trading entities; behavioral model; commitment based interoperation; data exchange; e-commerce; exceptions; execution architecture; metamodel; multiagent approach; payment protocols; persistent dynamic re-execution; revisions; service agreements; trading entities; Centralized control; Computer science; Contracts; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Electronic commerce; Protocols; Transaction databases; USA Councils; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 5th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1065-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.2001.917410

Filename

917410