Research On The Application Of Mobile Agent Technology In E-commerce

Recently, with the global popularization of the Internet and the development of information technology, E-commerce has already become the main trend of the development of the economic society.The efficiency of enterprises can be improved and enterprises can be made more competitive by E-commerce. Consequently, E-commerce is developing in a swift and violent manner as a new type of commercial mode all over the world.However,with the rapid increase of information on the internet, the technology of the traditional E-commerce and its environment face the enormous challenge.How to enhance the independence,flexible,collaboration and intelligence of the E-commerce systems as the problem we need to solute quickly.Since the Agent has the characteristic of movement,cooperation as well as some intelligence,it can compensate the shortcoming of the current E-commerce system.So how to lead the Mobile Agent technology into E-commerce soon becomes the focus of academic and enterprises.Based on analyzing the existing electronic commerce mode,the thesis studies how to apply Mobile Agent technology into E-commerce from the application point of view.The main work and innovations are as follows:(1)This thesis introduces the presentation of the theory of E-commerce,and then analyzes the lack of traditional E-commerce and brings a new mode which takes in the Mobile Agent technology.It introduces the domestic and foreign research actuality of E-commerce based on Mobile Agent.Next it explains this technology of Agent,particularly this technology of Mobile Agent.(2)A B to C E-commerce model based on Mobile Agent is designed.This model almost contains the whole process of B to C E-commerce activity.In this model,customers can get relative electronic shops' information with the commodities they need, then they comfirm the electronic shop needing to consult after comparing relative goods by oneself.Next, customers' side and electronic shops' side finish the trade after consulting a reasonable result betweem them.At last,we particularly introduce the function of every Mobile Agent in the model. (3)The threat to hosts and Mobile Agent is analyzed when Mobile Agent is mobiling in the E-commerce system, as a result of analysis, a set of security strategies is given in order to protect both hosts and Mobile Agent.(4)Based on analyzing the current different theories on Mobile Agent communication mechanism,this thesis designs a high-performance and reliable communication mechanism of Mobile Agent.Communication of Mobile Agent is implemented by combining Local Server with Mailbox, Information List of Mobile Agent and so on.The communication mechanism improves the communication efficiency of Mobile Agent, solves the communication invalidation problem and guarantees the system's stability.(5)We emphatically research the Agent platform-Aglet, Taking Aglet as the development platform and combining other JSP, SERVLET technologies,a B to C E-commerce prototype system based on Mobile Agent is implemented.The introduction of Mobile Agent technology will provide a new approach of development for E-commerce.It is believed that the work of this thesis is positive to research on the Application of Mobile Agent Technology in E-commerce.