A Multi-Agent Platform for the Provisioning of U-commerce Services

Ambient Intelligence offers significant benefits to e-commerce services, which is facilitated by the emergence of ubiquity (being available everywhere), universality (being able to operate in heterogeneous environments), uniqueness (relating services to a context such as the location) and working in unison (allowing multiple parties to work together) [1]. This type of e-commerce has been termed u-commerce. The proposal here is to adequate the designing of a multi-agent system to support u-commerce services provisioning; to propose an evaluation method for this kind of systems and finally make a review of the state of the practice of the existing reputation management systems in order to use them for this MAS supporting u-commerce.