A rule management framework for negotiating mobile agents

Author

Tu, M.T. ; Kunze, C. ; Lamersdorf, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hamburg Univ., Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

143

Abstract

Proposes an application framework for mobile agents which provides rule-based generic services to support the three phases of a market transaction (information phase, contracting phase and settlement phase). It is described within the four views of an electronic market (the business view, the transaction view, the services view and the infrastructure view) which describe organizational as well as technological aspects. The focus of this paper is on the technological aspects of the contracting phase in which the participating agents carry out an automated negotiation process to determine the terms of contract

Keywords

client-server systems; contracts; distributed programming; electronic commerce; multi-agent systems; software agents; application framework; automated negotiation process; business view; contract terms determination; contracting phase; electronic commerce; electronic market; information phase; infrastructure view; market transaction; middleware; negotiating mobile agents; organizational aspects; rule management framework; rule-based generic services; services view; settlement phase; technological aspects; transaction view; Application software; Automatic control; Automation; Computer science; Consumer electronics; Contracts; Logic; Middleware; Mobile agents; Software agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2000. EDOC 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International

Conference_Location

Makuhari

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0865-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2000.882353

Filename

882353