Design and Implementation of Virtual Market System Using Mobile Agent

이동 에이전트를 이용한 가상 상점 환경의 설계와 구현

Recently, according to the rapid development of Internet and IT, many applications and technologies related to Internet and IT have been studied and developed. The agent technology, which was an essential topic in early AI, is being researched with the combination of the recent network technologies. Mobile agent especially takes high interest of many researchers because of its mobility with which it can move around the internet and complete its goal. This paper presents a virtual market system using mobile agent, in which the transaction agents can do their transaction about some product with each other instead of real buyer and seller. The presented virtual market system consists of market agent, customer agent and database agent to provide the virtual market places for the effective completion of transactions.