MOBILE AGENTS: A TOOL FOR E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The anticipated increase in popular use of the Internet will create more opportunity in distance learning, electronic commerce, and multimedia communication, but it will also create more challenges*in organization information and facilitating its efficient retrieval. From network perspective, there will be additional challenges and problems in meeting bandwidth requirement and network management. Many researches believed that the mobile agent paradigm could propose several attractive solutions to deal with such challenges and problems. In this dissertation mobile agent technology is used in electronic commerce application. In which the computer of the various stock exchanges, located throughout the world, communicates with each other to determine the availability of shares, their price and confirms the.purchase on buyer request. Before purchasing the shares, buyer's mobile agent also authenticates from bank to verify the credit card. This is based on Java mobile agent technology called aglets. Buyer dispatches the Aglets to the various stock exchanges, where they check for availability and price of the stocks and returns to the buyer site with their best deal for approval.