A mobile agent brokering environment for the future open network marketplace

David Chieng, Ivan Ho, Alan Marshall, Gerard Parr

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Abstract

The growth of commercial activities across networks has led to the network itself becoming a competitive marketplace with a multitude of vendors, operators and customers. In such an environment, users will 'shop around' for the best deals in terms of network financial costs and services. Intelligent, autonomous and mobile software agents introduce an alternative approach that facilitates expertise-brokering activities on behalf of the users. In this paper we present such an agent supported brokering scenario. The scenario involves interactions between Java-based mobile agents and an interactive model of the network. The paper describes how this prototyping environment can be used to examine the impact of mobOe agents for brokering network resources in the future open network marketplace.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTelecommunications and IT Convergence Towards Service E-volution - 7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS
EditorsGeorge D. Stamoulis, Keith Start, Al Mullery, Jaime Delgado, Didoe Prevedourou
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages3-15
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3540671528
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, ISandN 2000 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 23 Feb 200025 Feb 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1774
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, ISandN 2000
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period23/02/0025/02/00

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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