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The use of autonomous software agents enable new types of complex transactions for electronic commerce where multiple agents can exchange their values to complete a single transaction. However, most of the existing transaction protocols support only simple transactions and are not sufficient for more flexible and complex transaction scenarios. In this paper, we provide a complex transaction model which describes the complex transaction as a transaction tree. Based on this structure, a protocol structure is provided to ensure strong fairness, non-repudiability, timeliness and atomicity of the distributed complex transactions.
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Wang, G., Das, A. (2001). Models and Protocol Structures for Software Agent Based Complex E-Commerce Transactions. In: Bauknecht, K., Madria, S.K., Pernul, G. (eds) Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44700-8_12
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