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In this paper we propose an XML-based adaptive multi-agent system for handling e-commerce activities. More specifically, our system aims at supporting a customer, visiting an e-commerce site, in the search of products and/or services present therein and appearing to be appealing according to her/his past interests and behaviour. The system is adaptive w.r.t. the profile of both the customer and the device she/he is exploiting for visiting the site. Finally, the system is XML-based since XML is exploited for both storing the agent ontologies and handling the agent communication.
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De Meo, P., Rosaci, D., Sarnè, G.M.L., Terracina, G., Ursino, D. (2003). An XML-Based Adaptive Multi-agent System for Handling E-commerce Activities. In: Jeckle, M., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Web Services - ICWS-Europe 2003. ICWS-Europe 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39872-1_13
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