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Software agent technology started to have a key role in e-commerce domain. Agents are now used to support a pervasive technology for different partners in e-business environment in which various virtual business processes will be incorporated and facilitated. Agent technology is used to automate these processes, as well as to enhance e-market places where sellers, vendors, and retailers provide a virtual shop for consumers and buyers to purchase items online through delegating requirements to software agents. This paper proposes a new framework for the use of software agent technology. The paper presents underlying framework, which is implemented by using agent coordination and collaboration in a distributed computing environment. The use of an agent controller pattern will provide robustness and scalability to e-market place. The framework allows multiple sellers to be registered, whereas buyers satisfy their requirements by using a mobile purchasing agent, which translates their requirements to the e-market place. In addition, the framework customized to satisfy e-business transactions for buyers and sellers.
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Al-Shrouf, F., Turani, A., Al-Shqeerat, K. (2011). Software Agents for E-Commerce Data Workflow Management. In: Zain, J.M., Wan Mohd, W.M.b., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Software Engineering and Computer Systems. ICSECS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22191-0_8
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