Coordinated collaboration for e-commerce based on the multiagent paradigm.

Abstract

Lee Ting-on.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Acknowledgments --- p.iAbstract --- p.iiChapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Roadmap to the Thesis --- p.5Chapter 2 --- Software Agents and Agent Frameworks --- p.7Chapter 2.1 --- Software Agent --- p.7Chapter 2.1.1 --- Advantages of Agent --- p.10Chapter 2.1.2 --- Roles of Agent --- p.11Chapter 2.2 --- Agent Frameworks --- p.13Chapter 2.3 --- Communication Services and Concepts --- p.15Chapter 2.3.1 --- Message Channel --- p.15Chapter 2.3.2 --- Remote Procedure Call --- p.16Chapter 2.3.3 --- Event Channel --- p.17Chapter 2.4 --- Component --- p.18Chapter 3 --- Related Work --- p.20Chapter 3.1 --- Collaboration Behaviors --- p.20Chapter 3.2 --- Direct Coordination --- p.22Chapter 3.3 --- Meeting-oriented Coordination --- p.23Chapter 3.4 --- Blackboard-based Coordination --- p.24Chapter 3.5 --- Linda-like Coordination --- p.25Chapter 3.6 --- Reactive Tuple Spaces --- p.26Chapter 4 --- Background and Foundations --- p.27Chapter 4.1 --- Choice of Technologies --- p.27Chapter 4.2 --- Jini Technology --- p.28Chapter 4.2.1 --- The Lookup Service --- p.29Chapter 4.2.2 --- Proxy --- p.31Chapter 4.3 --- JavaSpaces --- p.32Chapter 4.4 --- Grasshopper Architecture --- p.33Chapter 5 --- The CoDAC Framework --- p.36Chapter 5.1 --- Requirements for Enabling Collaboration --- p.37Chapter 5.1.1 --- Consistent Group Membership --- p.37Chapter 5.1.2 --- Atomic Commitment --- p.39Chapter 5.1.3 --- Uniform Reliable Multicast --- p.40Chapter 5.1.4 --- Fault Tolerance --- p.40Chapter 5.2 --- System Components --- p.41Chapter 5.2.1 --- Distributed Agent Adapter --- p.42Chapter 5.2.2 --- CollaborationCore --- p.44Chapter 5.3 --- System Infrastructure --- p.45Chapter 5.3.1 --- Agent --- p.45Chapter 5.3.2 --- Distributed Agent Manager --- p.46Chapter 5.3.3 --- Collaboration Manager --- p.46Chapter 5.3.4 --- Kernel --- p.46Chapter 5.4 --- Collaboration --- p.47Chapter 5.5.1 --- Global Collaboration --- p.48Chapter 5.5.2 --- Local Collaboration --- p.48Chapter 6 --- Collaboration Life Cycle --- p.50Chapter 6.1 --- Initialization --- p.50Chapter 6.2 --- Resouces Gathering --- p.53Chapter 6.3 --- Results Delivery --- p.54Chapter 7 --- Protocol Suite --- p.55Chapter 7.1 --- The Group Membership Protocol --- p.56Chapter 7.1.1 --- Join Protocol --- p.56Chapter 7.1.2 --- Leave Protocol --- p.57Chapter 7.1.3 --- Recovery Protocol --- p.59Chapter 7.1.4 --- Proof --- p.61Chapter 7.2 --- Atomic Commitment Protocol --- p.62Chapter 7.3 --- Uniform Reliable Multicast --- p.63Chapter Chapter 8 --- Implementation --- p.66Chapter 8.1 --- Interfaces and Classes --- p.66Chapter 8.1.1 --- The CoDACAdapterInterface --- p.66Chapter 8.1.2 --- The CoDACEventListener --- p.69Chapter 8.1.3 --- The DAAdapter --- p.71Chapter 8.1.4 --- The DAManager --- p.75Chapter 8.1.5 --- The CoDACInternalEventListener --- p.77Chapter 8.1.6 --- The CollaborationManager --- p.77Chapter 8.1.7 --- The CollaborationCore --- p.78Chapter 8.2 --- Messaging Mechanism --- p.79Chapter 8.3 --- Nested Transaction --- p.84Chapter 8.4 --- Fault Detection --- p.85Chapter 8.5 --- Atomic Commitment Protocol --- p.88Chapter 8.5.1 --- Message Flow --- p.89Chapter 8.5.2 --- Timeout Actions --- p.91Chapter Chapter 9 --- Example --- p.93Chapter 9.1 --- System Model --- p.93Chapter 9.2 --- Auction Lifecycle --- p.94Chapter 9.2.1 --- Initialization --- p.94Chapter 9.2.2 --- Resource Gathering --- p.98Chapter 9.2.3 --- Results Delivery --- p.100Chapter Chapter 10 --- Discussions --- p.104Chapter 10.1 --- Compatibility --- p.104Chapter 10.2 --- Hierarchical Group Infrastructure --- p.106Chapter 10.3 --- Flexibility --- p.107Chapter 10.4 --- Atomicity --- p.108Chapter 10.5 --- Fault Tolerance --- p.109Chapter Chapter 11 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.111Chapter 11.1 --- Conclusion --- p.111Chapter 11.2 --- Future Work --- p.112Chapter 11.2.1 --- Electronic Commerce --- p.112Chapter 11.2.2 --- Workflow Management --- p.114Bibliography --- p.116Publication List --- p.12