Bon Marché: um grupo de agentes móveis para o comércio na internet

Abstract

The beginning of Internet as commercial usage with its easy graphic interface originated an enormous increase of users ' quantity as well as a great variety of available services during the last years. Nowadays the majority of priva te and public institutions are prepared to provide any kind of information or service through the Internet. Considering this fact, the present work proposes the development of a mobile and intelligent multiagent auxiliary software to the electronic market in order to make easier the Internet's purchases. The proposed system is based on a group of agents that try to find simultaneously the users' interest products in the several virtual places known by them, presenting the results in an homogeneous way. The techniques applied to the development of the system will be the IBM 's mobile agent framework and the rule-driven inferences mechanism. This paper discusses the architecture of the project and emphasizes, in a first phase, the results obtained with a prototype built with a configuration more simplified that implements the mobility. In a second phase, it will be built the intelligent module to transform the Bon Marché group of agents into a more autonomous and able group to achieve more appurated queries and recomendations.