Title :
Nomad: mobile agent system for an Internet-based auction house
Author :
Sandholm, Tuomas ; Huai, Qianbo
Author_Institution :
Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
The paper discusses Nomad, a mobile agent system integrated with eAuctionHouse, a next-generation Internet auction server. With the Nomad system, mobile agents travel to the eAuctionHouse site and participate in auctions on the user´s behalf. Users can create agents using Java or can automatically generate agents from Nomad´s template agent library
Keywords :
Internet; Java; distributed programming; electronic commerce; information resources; software agents; software libraries; Internet auction server; Internet-based auction house; Java; Nomad; automatic agent generation; eAuctionHouse; electronic commerce; mobile agent system; template agent library; Business; Consumer electronics; Costs; Delay; Distributed computing; Internet; Mobile agents; TCPIP; Testing; Web server;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.832950
