AGENT-ORIENTED DESIGN OF E-COMMERCE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Stéphane Faulkner, Manuel Kolp, Adrien Coyette, T. Tung Do

2004

Abstract

Agent architectures are gaining popularity for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by e-commerce applications. Unfortunately, despite considerable work in software architecture during the last decade, few research efforts have aimed at truly defining patterns and languages for agent architectural design. This paper proposes a modern approach based on organizational structures and architectural description languages to define and specify agent architectures notably in the case of e-commerce system design.

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in Harvard Style

Faulkner S., Kolp M., Coyette A. and Tung Do T. (2004). AGENT-ORIENTED DESIGN OF E-COMMERCE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 372-379. DOI: 10.5220/0002646103720379


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Stéphane Faulkner and Manuel Kolp and Adrien Coyette and T. Tung Do},
title={AGENT-ORIENTED DESIGN OF E-COMMERCE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={372-379},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002646103720379},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - AGENT-ORIENTED DESIGN OF E-COMMERCE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Faulkner S.
AU - Kolp M.
AU - Coyette A.
AU - Tung Do T.
PY - 2004
SP - 372
EP - 379
DO - 10.5220/0002646103720379