Authors:
Ilhem Abdelhedi Abdelmoula
;
Hella Kaffel Ben Ayed
and
Farouk Kamoun
Affiliation:
CRISTAL Lab, ENSI -National school of computer science, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Real-time auctions, e-commerce, distributed architecture, IRC protocol, theory graph algorithms.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Communication and Software Infrastructure
;
e-Business
;
e-Commerce and e-Business: B2B and B2C
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Global Communication Information Systems and Services
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Services and Applications
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services
;
Web Technologies and Web Services
Abstract:
This paper presents a new hierarchical distributed communication architecture, called AHS (Auction Handling System), based on clusters. This architecture uses the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels and protocol facilities in order to support real-time auction applications (RTA). Coordination between distributed auction servers is needed to exchange and update some relevant auction information and to resolve the winning bid within a cluster. The problem is how to determine the best location of the auction server coordinator. For this purpose, we suggest the use of the Floyd-Warshall’s algorithm, which is a graph theory algorithm.