Infrastructure for Agent based B2B marketplace University of Wollongong CSCI321 project Present by Joe Tsang, Joe Cheung, Sammy, Angus and Lilian

B2B Marketplace Offer a B2B marketplace for agents to buy or sell their products  Our system provide simple Agent service  A foreign Agent interface Accept Remote Agent Third-party designed agent to make bidding

Auction Methods 3 types of auction implemented in Marketplace  English auction Price go up until time end Final highest price bidder win  Japanese auction Seller increases price force buyers leave Last buyer remain win  Seal-bids (Vickery) auction The highest buyer bid win pay second highest price

System structure of Marketplace Database Tomcat – DB – Java Threading process

Java Threading process - IMAS We name this Java Threading process as [IMAS] – Intelligent Marketplace Agent System Most important part of system  Agent Intelligent  Auction Biding  Communicate with Foreign agent  Implement of Biding Strategy IMAS

Third Party Agent We provide a interface to accept third party agent  This agent … contain its own intelligent designed by user continue to communicate to IMAS could use basic function in marketplace  login  product searching  bid price  check status competitive with the agent inside our marketplace

Third Party Agent A TCP socket accept remote agent connect A helper class convert XML data to Java data objectXML Agent must following the specification of Third party agent design

The Web Interface

Make a new Buyer Agent

Make a new Seller Agent

Notification