A new reverse auction agent system for m-commerce using mobile agents.pdf

/locate/csiComputer Standards InterfA new reverse auction agent system for m-commerce using mobile agents Dong-Her Shiha,*, Shin-Yi Huanga, David C. Yenb aDepartment of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123, Section 3, University Road, Touliu, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C. bDepartment of DSC and MIS, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States Available online 4 November 2004Abstract In order to get the goods, a buyer must search for the items through several auction sites in Internet. When the auction starts, the buyer needs to connect to these auction sites frequently so that he can monitor the bid states and re-bid. In this paper, we propose an automated negotiation model between two participants, for m-commerce, using collaborative mobile agents called mobile reverse auction agent system (MoRAAS), which mediates between the buyer and the sellers and executes bidding asynchronously and autonomously. This reduces the network load and offers more intelligent bidding. A new double encryption key chain technique and a new RVAP protocol are proposed to achieve unconditional bid privacy. Every losing bidder can control the privacy of their own bids while no trust is needed. Computational cost of our RVAP protocol is reduced by avoiding the costly verifiable encryption technique. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Reverse Vickrey auction; Bid privacy; Mobile agent; M-commerce; Automated negotiation1. Introduction Though the technology of e-commerce has grown steadily, it is still difficult to implement the negotiation between a buyer and a seller online. The Internet auction agent system has been expanded as an alternative solution and the area of multi-agent systems [1] has achieved steadily growing interest in the past0920-5489/$ - see front matter D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.csi.2004.10.006 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 fax: +886 E-mail addresses: shihd