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E-Commerce is a distributed computing environment with dynamic relationships among a large number of autonomous service requesters, brokers and providers. With the increasing automation of e-commerce applications, we will see the use of software agents that cooperate to perform business transactions. Multi-agent cooperative transactions are different in their requirements both from conventional atomic transactions executed under centralized control and from nested transactions executed under hierarchical control. Cooperative transactions require peer-to-peer protocols based on inter-agent communication. In this paper, we develop a cooperative mulit-agent transaction model that includes peer-to-peer protocols for commit control and failure recovery. The significance and feasibility of this approach have been demonstrated in a prototype implemented at HP Labs, using our dynamic agent infrastructure.
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Chen, Q., Dayal, U. (2000). Multi-agent Cooperative Transactions for E-Commerce. In: Scheuermann, P., Etzion, O. (eds) Cooperative Information Systems. CoopIS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722620_29
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