| dc.description.abstract | With the rapid development of the Internet, online auction has become a popular transaction mode. Besides providing sellers an easy way for selling goods any time and any where, it helps buyers to get less expensive and rare products. However, there’s still some inconvenience in existing auction sites, especially for sellers. For example, Buyers have to process complicated bidding operations and they have to spend lots of time communicating with the seller about payment once the buyer win the action. Therefore, to improve above situation, we design an auction scheme based on mobile devices and provide a method to facilitate action process by using software agent.
In this study, based on technology of software agent, we develop a multi-agent architecture for participants in the action process, and design an anonymous mechanism to ensure the privacy. Further, we integrate the mechanism with mobile payment and propose “A Mobile Anonymous Auction and Payment Scheme with Software Agent”. We provide an automatic bidding service for both buyers and sellers and mobile payment after the bidding to increase the efficiency of online auction.
This study is organized as follow: Firstly we study on the literature of auction, software agent, and mobile payment. Then we introduce the architecture of our scheme, operations of agents, and processes of auction and payment. Finally, we evaluate the effects of all parameters in different bidding strategy and discuss privacy issues in auction and payment processes to verify the effectiveness and security of the proposed scheme. | en_US |