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Agent Technology: Feasibility for Business and Manufacturing Application
Published
Author(s)
Elizabeth N. Fong, Nenad Ivezic, R Korchak, Y Peng, Thomas R. Rhodes
Abstract
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) may be defined as the entire set of processes that support transaction activities on a network and involve information analysis. These activities spawn product information and display events, services, providers, consumers, advertisers, support for transactions, brokering systems for a variety of services and actions (e.g., finding certain products, finding cheaply priced products, etc.) The potential of agent-based systems has not been realized yet, in part, because of the lack of understanding how the agent technology support business-to-business e-commerce processes. This report is to investigate the current state of agent technology and the feasibility of applying agent-based computing to business-to-business (b2b) e-commerce.
Fong, E.
, Ivezic, N.
, Korchak, R.
, Peng, Y.
and Rhodes, T.
(2002),
Agent Technology: Feasibility for Business and Manufacturing Application, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
(Accessed October 15, 2025)