The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems able to support effectively distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, and application areas such as ecommerce appear to...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montana...
Mobile agents offer a new possibility for the development of applications in distributed systems and are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their impl...
Hartmut Vogler, Thomas Kunkelmann, Marie-Luise Mos...
This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
Abstract. Based on the specific characteristics of electronic commerce (ECommerce) requirements for an adequate system support, this contribution gives an overview of the respectiv...