| dc.description.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 | en_US |
