Kunyanuth Kularbphettong. Multi-agent in e-Commerce. Doctoral Degree(Information Technology). King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, 2009.
Abstract:
Multi-agent systems are often presented as the next major generation of software to
cope with the increasing complexity in modern applications. MAS are distributed systems
of autonomous and interacting entities named agents. They are possibly large-scale
systems and the agent research community aims at having agents collaborate or compete
with one another to achieve their functions in a highly modular and flexible way. A
variety of applications of agent technologies can be observed in state-of-the-art software
developed from autonomous robots in manufacturing to software agents that assist users
over the Internet. Multi-agent systems are therefore promising models and technologies in
the future advance in Software engineering and Artificial intelligence. And also, multiagent
system is continuously utilized in e-Business that wants to improve responsiveness
and efficiency of systems. Therefore, this research proposes and implements the multiagent-
system blended with various techniques such as Web service, ontology, and data
mining techniques. The multi agent system, which constitutes the backbone of the
framework, connects these pieces together and makes them perform properly. JADE is
the MAS platform implemented this project. Moreover, it supports many agent
approaches such as agent communication, protocol, behavior and ontology. This
framework has been experimented and evaluated in the realization of a simple, but
realistic, prototype of an e-Wedding system. The results, though still preliminary, are
quite encouraging.