E-AUCTION SYSTEM USING MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Mobile agent technology has known an important rise these last years. This project will
present 3 objectives in constructing an E-Auction system which are; to study on how
mobile agent system is said to be useful to reduce communication cost in e-auction
system as well as to accept the use of limited local resources, and to have an
asynchronous computing. Instead of having to surf endlessly through the WWW (World
Wide Web) and digesting huge amounts of possibly untrustworthy information,
personalized mobile agents autonomously gather information about the item user want to
buy. Once they have found the destination or server, the piece of software or the latest
hit single which user looking for, the agent can send the result of the best requested item
on behalf of the user. This project will be focusing on E-Auction business on PDA's and
will be using mobile agent platform which is aglets, Java runtime, and J2sdkl.4.1_03.
This project will undergo 5 stages which are; plan the hardware or software required for
the project, then analyze and get Product Requirement, next is design the process of
implementing PDA's E-Auction System, implement the project by using mobile agent
platform - aglets that involves programming activity and last is to test the product to
ensure the product successfully completed and satisfy and fulfill the objectives of this
project. The result and discussion about the system produced will highlights how the
system works generally .Some other interested formula and idea from other project's
discussion will also be used to further doing this project. As a conclusion, this project is
aimed to create a simple E-Auction system using mobile agent technology and need to
be improved in many aspects and that can be the recommendation for future work for
expansion and continuation.