Research Of The Application Of Mobile Agent Technique In Electronic Commerce

With the quick development of the Internet and WWW technique, E-commerce application systems are acquiring more and more attention. Because of rapidly growing information on the Internet, the traditional technique , such as C/S technique, appears unfit to build these systems on the Internet. In traditional E-commerce, each trade activity needs the person' s participation. So, the degree of automatization is very low. Traditional E-commerce has other shortcoming, such as wasting bandwidth, low efficiency, etc. Mobile agents are an emerging technology that makes it easier to design, implement and maintain distributed systems on the Internet. They have acquired a lot of attention in academy and enterprise during recent years. The technology of mobile agents applied in E-commerce can resolve a series of problem and provide characterizing services to consumers and companies, such as exploring intelligent resources and automatic bargaining, etc.This thesis firstly discusses the rationale and the architecture of E-commerce. Then, introduces the architecture, key technique of mobile agent, analyses several development platforms of mobile agent. This thesis presents and designs a model of Business-to-Business E-commerce based on mobile agent. This prototype system is named BMAECM. BMAECM consists of two subsystem . One is enterprise agents subsystem, the other is intermediary organ agents subsystem. This thesis introduces the bargaining process with agents in detail and presents a quotation negotiation strategy between two agents. In the end, this thesis introduces the implementation of the system. BMAECM system can effectively implement business-to-business E-commerce activity. Compares with traditional technique, it possesses high automatization and efficiency, moreover, it can save bandwidth.