| dc.description.abstract | Due to the appearance of internet during the 20th century, we can get any information with a networked computer. Gradually, the internet becomes an irresistible trend and e-businesses also start growing faster and faster.
In this research, we choose auction web sites that are more mature in e-business as a subject. After studying some famous web sites, we hope to enhance two common disadvantages of the sites: (1) online bidding－we need an auctioneer to deal with the auction order. First, the auctioneer announces the information related to the auctioning product on the whiteboard. Second, he starts receiving bids made by participant bidders and updates the current highest bid and bidder’s name on the whiteboard so that the auction seems live for participants. (2) agent design－In current auction web sites, users have to repeat operations like connecting to the net, making bids, and disconnecting to ensure that their bids are taking the lead until the end. But actually, these mechanical procedures could be handled by agents that belong to users. By agent design, we can reduce the time of querying bidding statuses and making bids on the net and improve the bidding efficiency for users.
In order to achieve these two goals, we have to do a lot of coordination. Therefore, we need to apply a coordination mechanism while designing the auction web site. Here we adopt a coordination tool that is published by Sun Microsystem implemented with Java programming language, and that provides robust support in coordination－Jini/JavaSpaces－for the auction web site. | en_US |