- author = "Fangming Zhu and Sheng-Uei Guan",
- title = "Towards Evolution of Software Agents in Electronic Commerce",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC2001",
- year = "2001",
- pages = "1303--1308",
- address = "COEX, World Trade Center, 159 Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea",
- publisher_address = "445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA",
- month = "27-30 " # may,
- organisation = "IEEE Neural Network Council (NNC), Evolutionary Programming Society (EPS), Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)",
- publisher = "IEEE Press",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, software agents, agent evolution, agent-based electronic commerce, e-commerce, modularized agent structure, multiagent evolution cycle, electronic commerce, multi-agent systems",
- ISBN = "0-7803-6658-1",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1109/CEC.2001.934341",
- abstract = "With the development of Internet computing and software agent technologies, agent-based electronic commerce (e-commerce) is emerging. Software agents have demonstrated tremendous potential in conducting various tasks in e-commerce. However, when agents are initially created, they have little knowledge and experience with relatively lower capability. They should also strive to adapt themselves to the changing environment. It is advantageous if they have the ability to learn and evolve. This paper addresses evolution of software agents in e-commerce. Agent fitness and life cycle are proposed as evolution mechanisms, and modularised agent structure is introduced to facilitate the evolution process. Genetic Programming (GP) operators are employed to restructure agents in the proposed multi-agent evolution cycle",
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notes = "CEC-2001 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, Evolutionary
Programming Society, Galesia, and the IEE.
IEEE Catalog Number = 01TH8546C,
Library of Congress Number = .
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