Agent-Based Design Patterns Approach And Its Applications For Business-To-Consumer E-Commerce
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Date
2006
Authors
Al-Shrouf, Faiz Mohammed
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
As the use of software agents continues to grow in e-commerce environments, the analysis and design of agents are often done using an
approach, called the Agent-Based Role Modeling (ABRM) approach. This
approach has some drawbacks such as lack of reusability of agent components
and lack of flexibility in dynamic addition of agents in open e-commerce systems.
To overcome shortcomings, a more efficient approach in business software
engineering, called the Agent Pattern Driven Business Engineering (APDBE) is
developed in this thesis to create Business Agent Patterns (BAP), which will be
used to document agent-based commerce patterns for business-based systems.
Such BAP are: the Dynamic Design Pattern (DynDP), the De-coupler Design
Pattern (DecDP), and the Agent Mediator Design Pattern (MedDP).
Towards the main objective, we propose the Electronic Commerce Layering Framework (ECLF) that would overcome shortcomings of other e-commerce frameworks and establishes the basis for the development of the Extended ECommerce
Scope Model (EECSM) and the Agent-Manager-Controller (AMC). The
ECLF, EECSM, and AMC lead to APDBE development in a natural manner.
Future research work requires additional BAP to provide a sound foundation to document agent commerce patterns for Business-to-Consumer e-commerce.
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Electronic commerce