Mobile Agents for an Electronic Marketplace

Abstract

The mobile agent (MA) paradigm has garnered a significant amount of interest over the course of the recent past few years. In spite of the fact that MAs have been the source of a substantial amount of enthusiasm in the academic community, they have not yet produced a significant number of applications in the real world. One of the most important reasons for this is that there is a dearth of research that quantitatively compares and contrasts the efficacy of conventional methods with that of mobile agents. The study presents an implementation of an e-commerce application that makes use of mobile agents and makes a contribution to such an assessment. The current mobile agent apps that are used in the field of e-commerce are categorized, and the underlying mobility patterns are uncovered. These, in turn, establish a number of different implementation options that make use of the conventional client-server and mobile agent paradigms. This paper outlines the implementation method that should be used when integrating mobile agents into an electronic marketplace. Mobile agent may boost e-commerce and give new approaches for designing intelligent applications. The fundamental elements of e-commerce agents are their autonomy, their flexibility, their capacities to observe, analyze, and act in their encompassing surroundings, as well as the power to interact with other mobile agents to solve complicated issues. The autonomy of agents implies the adaptation to participate in conversations governed by processes not known in advance, while their mobility means such discussions taking place at distant places. This work attempts at integrating adaptability with mobility by explaining the mobile agents emerging in the system and their fundamental interactions. Furthermore, this study explains the reasons why utilization of mobile agents inside the recommended framework.

Keywords: Asymmetric algorithm, Coordinating server, Digital signature, Hash function, Mobile agents, RSA, Symmetric algorithm, Trusted server.

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