Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference (한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2001.01a
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- Pages.83-88
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- 2001
MoCAAS: Auction Agent System Using a Collaborative Mobile Agent in Electronic Commerce
- Lee, Kwang-Yong (Inha University Intelligent E-Commerce Sustems Lab) ;
- Yoon, Jung-Sup (Inha University Intelligent E-Commerce Sustems Lab) ;
- Jo, Geun-Sik (Inha University Intelligent E-Commerce Sustems Lab)
- Published : 2001.01.01
Abstract
To get the items that a buyer wants in Internet auction. he must search for the items through several auction sites. When the bidding starts, he(the buyer) needs to connect to these auction sites frequently so that he can monitor the bid stats and re-bid. A reserve-price auction reduces the number of connections, but this limits the user's bidding strategy. Another problem is equity between the buyer and the seller. Both the buyer and the seller should profit together within proper limits. In this paper, we propose an auction agent system using a collaborative mobile agent and a brokering mechanism called MoCAAS (Mobile Collaborative Auction Agent System), which mediates between the buyer and the seller and executes bidding asynchronously and autonomously. This reduces connection costs. offers more intelligent bidding and solves the equity problem.