Treffer: COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCES IN E-COMMERCE.

This article focuses on communication management experiences and its effect on e-commerce. Effective e-commerce relies on an efficient and precise information interchange between participating stakeholders, using the existing infrastructure. The Internet and intranet communication facilities are making the amount of available information quite large, and it continues to increase progressively. Experiences using a multi-agent system (MAS)- based intermediation service for e-commerce, implemented with computer software Java and CORBA are described in this article, with emphasis on communication and management system activities. Using Java as the communication medium between modules inside each domain allows higher speed than using CORBA but requires replacing call-back versatility with a more complex implementation code. At the same time, the application environment does not tend to be extremely distributed or heterogeneous, so that CORBA utilization in intradomain communications could be justified.