NDLI: An agent-based shopping system

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Benedicenti, L. Xuguang Chen Xiaoran Cao Paranjape, R.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Regina Univ., Sask., Canada (Benedicenti, L.; Xuguang Chen; Xiaoran Cao; Paranjape, R.)
Abstract	A shopping assistant agent system is presented, and its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The system is based on a lightweight agent implementation called TEEMA (TRLabs Execution Environment for Mobile Agents). The TEEMA platform has been built adopting the concept of a microkernel, providing agents with a small number of basic services for communication, migration, and location. Additional services can be added on top of TEEMA, like name services, storage services, security services and database services. The shopping assistant agent system facilitates supermarket shopping. It works as follows. The user at home sends an agent with a shopping list to selected supermarkets. The agent then travels to each supermarket and retrieves a limited price list. The agent makes use of a residential gateway to protect the user information. The agent then returns to the user, and the user is informed of the results of the search. If the user decides to go to a supermarket, an agent is sent there through the residential gateway. The agent then registers to have access to the complete price lists. Registered agents have to be retrieved locally using a wireless-enabled PDA. When the user arrives at the supermarket, the user's PDA receives the agent. The user is then presented with a complete shopping list, with relevant information on special offers, and with an aisle map for the goods on the list. The system is distributed; its main logical components are ideally located at the user's location, at a residential gateway, at a mobile terminal, and at each participating supermarket. The system architecture is presented, together with the integration strategy to make the system work with legacy database and server software. The paper discusses strengths and weaknesses of this approach, and it compares the system with other supermarket shopping systems. The conclusions show that there is promise for this approach, provided that extreme care is used in developing the user interface.
Sponsorship	Cisco Syst. General Elec. Ryerson Univ. AVFX Audio Visual Bell Canada Dofasco Dye & Durham Gennum Corp. IEEE Canada Found. Univ. of Toronto Niagara College of Appl. Arts and Technol
Starting Page	703
Ending Page	705
File Size	204087
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780382536
ISSN	08407789
DOI	10.1109/CCECE.2004.1345210
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-05-02
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Mobile agents Databases Mobile communication Secure storage Communication system security Data security Protection User interfaces Information analysis Performance analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hardware and Architecture

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