E-Commerce Multi-Agent Environment

Agent technology is often claimed to be the silver bullet for the task of automating e-commerce business processes, to bring efficiency and profitability to businesses and individual users. Moreover, recent advances in software engineering, business process management and computational intelligence resulted in methods and techniques for developing advanced e-commerce applications as well as supporting automating e-commerce business processes. Despite this fact, up to now, the most successful e-commerce systems are still being based on humans to make the most important decisions in various activities along the lifecycle of an e-business transaction. Therefore, we have set up a goal of developing, implementing and experimenting with a large scale agent-based e-commerce system. At this stage our focus is on creating a system with a multitude of agents that play variety of roles and interact with each-other - system skeleton. Furthermore, we proceed beyond what is typically considered for e-commerce agents, the act of negotiation itself. We conceptualize the negotiation as a part of a complete e-commerce scenario consisting of: matchmaking, negotiating and purchasing.

Publications

  1. Costin Bădică, Adriana Bădită, Maria Ganzha, Alin Iordache, Marcin Paprzycki (2006). Implementing Rule-Based Mechanisms for Agent-based Price Negotiations. Proccedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC'2006. Agents, Interactions, Mobility and Systems (AIMS) Track. Dijon, France, ACM Press, 2006. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  2. Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki (2005). Rule-Based Automated Price Negotiation: an Overview and an Experiment. Technical Report 05-01, Department of Software Engineering, University of Craiova, 2005.
  3. Costin Bădică, Adriana Bădită, Maria Ganzha, Alin Iordache, Marcin Paprzycki (2005). Rule-Based Framework for Automated Negotiation: Initial Implementation. In: Asaf Adi, Suzette Stoutenburg, Said Tabet (Eds.): Proceedings of Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, First International Conference, RuleML 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 10-12, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3791, Springer Verlag, pp.193-198, 2005. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  4. Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki (2005). Mobile Agents in a Multi-Agent E-Commerce System. In: D. Petcu, V. Negru (eds.) Proceedings SYNASC05: 7th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timişoara, Romania, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 207-214, 2005, USA. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  5. Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha,  Marcin Paprzycki (2005). UML Models of Agents in a Multi-Agent E-Commerce System. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business Engineering, ICEBE 2005. Beijing, China, 2005. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp56-61. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  6. Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Amalia Pīrvănescu (2005). Combining Rule-Based and Plug-in Components in Agents for Flexible Dynamic Negotiations. In: M. Pechoucek, et. al. (eds.) LNCS, Volume 3690, Springer Verlag, pp.555-558, 2005. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  7. Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki (2005). Two Approaches to Code Mobility in an Agent-based E-commerce System. In: C. Ardil (ed.), Enformatika, Volume 7, 101-107, 2005. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  8. Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Amalia Pīrvănescu (2005). Experimenting With a Multi-Agent E-Commerce Environment. In: Proceedings of the 2005 PaCT Conference, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3606, Springer Verlag. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  9. Amalia Pīrvănescu, Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki (2005). Conceptual Architecture and Sample Implementation of a Multi-Agent E-Commerce System. In: Proceedings CSCS'05, 15th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, 2005. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  10. Amalia Pīrvănescu, Costin Bădică, Marcin Paprzycki (2005). Developing a JADE-based Multi-Agent E-Commerce Environment. In: Nuno Guimarćes and Pedro Isaķas (eds.) Proceedings IADIS AC’05, International Conference on Applied Computing, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 425-432, IADIS Press, Lisbon, 2005. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  11. Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Amalia Pīrvănescu, Costin Bădică, Ajith Abraham (2004). JADE-based Multi-agent E-commerce Environment: Initial Implementation.In:  Analele Universităţii din Timişoara, Seria Matematică-Informatică,  Vol. XLII, Fasc. special, pp. 79-100. 2004  A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.
  12. Marcin Paprzycki, Ajith Abraham, Amalia Pīrvănescu, Costin Bădică (2004). Implementing Agents Capable of Dynamic Negotiations. In: D. Petcu, V. Negru (eds.) Proceedings SYNASC04: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timişoara, Romania, Mirton Press, pp. 369-380, Romania, 2004. A preliminary version can be downloaded from here.