文档介绍：An Agent-based On-line Shopping System
Xinfeng Ye
Department puter Science
University of Auckland
New Zealand
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Abstract has to check many offers available on the
before making a decision.
As more and more retailers are using the In recent years, software agents [5] have been
to advertise and sale their products, it will soon be- used to help the consumers to choose products on
come impossible for consumers to manually search the [6]. Unlike traditional software, soft-
for the best offer for a product on the . This ware agents are personalized, continuously running
paper describes an agent-based system which helps and semiautonomous. Typically, a consumer speci-
consumers locating the best offer for a product. The fies the product and the relevant criteria associated
system provides a mechanism supporting automated with the product, the software agent roams the In-
negotiation between the consumers and the retail- to find the merchants who provide the product
ers. Unlike many existing systems, the system in this which matches the consumer’s specification.
paper is based on a distributed approach; and it al-
Several systems have been developed recently.
lows the negotiation to be conducted across multiple
PersonaLogic () and Fire-
terms of a sale. The system is also able to detect ma-
fly () are systems which help con-
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