e-payment CH7

a computer program that acts autonomously on behalf of a person or organization.

• software agent

• Trader agents

• mobile agent

a program that represents a user and can migrate (move or change) from one machine to other machine in a computer network to perform some computation on behalf of the user.

• software agent

• Trader agents

• A mobile agent

Methods that protect an agent against attacks can be categorized into those that:

(a)  

The mobile-agent advantage

(a)  

The ability of software agent to perform tasks without direct control

• autonomous

• semi-autonomous

software agents i.e. agents that perform tasks with minimal super vision

• autonomous

• semi-autonomous

allowed users to specify product features and used a constraint satisfaction

algorithm to filter through the product space to retrieve an ordered set of products.

• PersonaLogic

• Firefly

• Bargain Finder and jango

used an automated collaborative filtering method to rate and recommend products to shoppers.

• PersonaLogic

• Firefly

• Bargain Finder and jango

Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

(a)  

A system in which the agents carry out autonomously the entire process of e-commerce transaction starting from information gathering to the completion of the transaction (a)