Two Approaches to Code Mobility in an Agent-based E-commerce System

Recently, a model multi-agent e-commerce system based on mobile buyer agents and transfer of strategy modules was proposed. In this paper a different approach to code mobility is introduced, where agent mobility is replaced by local agent creation supplemented by similar code mobility as in the original proposal. UML diagrams of agents involved in the new approach to mobility and the augmented system activity diagram are presented and discussed.

• Costin Badica
• Maria Ganzha
• Marcin Paprzycki

• Agent system
• agent mobility
• code mobility
• e-commerce
• UML formalization.

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