DocumentCode
1579335
Title
Price-comparison agents for MAGICS
Author
Chan, Henry C B ; Chin, Chris K H ; Lam, Benjamin
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Kowloon, China
Volume
2
fYear
2001
fDate
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
744
Abstract
Price comparison is an important step in a consumer buying process. In this paper, we present a mobile agent-based Internet Commerce System (MAGICS) and discuss how it can be used to facilitate price comparison. We formulate a mathematical model to determine the optimum number of mobile agents to be dispatched if the price distribution is known. The mathematical model is solved with both the uniform price distribution and the normal price distribution. The results are useful for designing price comparison services in general and MAGICS in particular
Keywords
Internet; electronic commerce; software agents; MAGICS; e-commerce; mobile agent-based Internet Commerce System; normal price distribution; price comparison; uniform price distribution; Business; Databases; Humans; Mathematical model; Mobile agents; Network servers; Protocols; Search engines; Web and internet services; Web server;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2001. PACRIM. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7080-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953739
Filename
953739
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