Agent-based bidding application for mobile phones

Abstract

Buying and selling through mobile devices poses many challenges such as the need for active user participation in the auction process, tedious searching of items and services, limitation of mobile device resources and security related issues. To support automated and efficient mobile device based Auctions, an agent based solution can perform better than traditional SMS-based or online auctions. This research uses Gaia methodology to design agent based mobile auction model and to develop a prototype system to address the aforesaid challenges. The prototype is developed using Jade framework and android platform to evaluate the performance of the proposed design. The design and the prototype is also verified to ensure that it complies with electronic auction requirements such as anonymity, traceability, no-framing, non-repudiation, fairness, public verifiability and one time registration. The research improves on item search process, auction strategies, device resource utilization and proposes a secure auction and payment process