The agents??™ communications in an intelligent-agent,
infomediary-based e-marketplace and its architecture are shown in Figure 4. The
architecture of the intelligent-agent infomediary-based e-marketplace consists of
buyer and supplier agents that represent the behaviors of buyers and suppliers business
enterprises respectively. A common repository of information/knowledge for
sharing and reusing relevant knowledge. Moreover, the infomediary functions (i.e.,
discovery, facilitation of transaction, and support of knowledge intensive decisions)
are accomplished through three agent types: (1) discovery agents, (2) transaction
agents, and (3) authenticated monitoring agents. Here, buyer and seller agents must
register with the infomediary to be allowed to execute transactions. The monitoring
agent is responsible for the coordination of discovery agents across multiples
e-marketplaces. The interested reader is referred to Singh, Salam, et al. (2005) for
a complete discussion about intelligent-agent, infomediary-based e-marketplace.
Semantic knowledge transparency in the e-marketplace provides critical input to the
supplier discovery and selection decision problem while reducing the transaction
and search costs for the buyer organization.
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