Online Auction System by Using Mobile Agents

Abstract

Online auctions have become an effective approach in the buying and selling process, employed in the rapidly emerging Internet-based electronic commerce platforms. Through internet, the limitation of distance and region are broken for business behaviors. Especially the internet and WWW technologies broken the limitation of space and the mobile agent techniques can solve the problem of this limitation. In this paper, an online auction system by using mobile agents is proposed for user-desired products/services. Among many types of auctions, English auction and Reverse auction will be proposed