Author:
Xining Li
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Canada
Keyword(s):
Mobile Device, Mobile Agents, M-commerce, Service Discovery, Database Service.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
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Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
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Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
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e-Business
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e-Business Systems for Multiple Platforms
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Mobile Services and Architectures
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Multi-Agent Systems
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Software Engineering
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Symbolic Systems
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Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services
Abstract:
Mobile agents are self-contained processes, dispatched by their principal, roaming the Internet to access data and services, and carrying out their decision-making and problem-solving tasks remotely. Mobile commerce (M-commerce), the traditional E-commerce combined with mobile devices and wireless networks, is likely to become a major business model in the near future. Due to the flexibility and mobility, mobile agent based M-commerce can complement the existing client/server based E-commerce model to enable consumers to conduct business without time and space restrictions. For the purpose of applying mobile agents to various internet applications, we have implemented an experimental mobile agent system infrastructure that provides programming languages and virtual machines, and also integrates security, service discovery and database access functionalities. The goal of this research is to deploy the existing system infrastructure for M-commerce applications. We hope that the propose
d research will benefit mobile consumers who wish to access a wide choice of products and services on an anywhere and anytime basis.
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