Intelligent Agent

The expansion of the Internet has made an authoritative impact on the approach the conventional business was conducted. Electronic Commerce, a new-fangled way to demeanor business, is gaining an added recognition. Despite its swift intensification, there are limitations that encumber the expansion of Electronic Commerce. The crucial basis for such an impediment was the sluggish performance of Client Server (CS) computing, on which Electronic Commerce was equipped. The elucidation to the quandary was found in Mobile Agents (MA). MA is a computer software code that acts autonomously on behalf of a user and travels through a network of heterogeneous machines, thereby providing greater flexibility, agile capability and customizability for user. Although MA has generated a substantial anticipation in the way Electronic Business was conducted, security related problem is the foremost distress for the organizations. In this paper, a complete mathematical formulation of system for controlling transaction flow in online payment system using MA is being conducted and presented.

Over the years, the electronic commerce has evolved from client-server environments to mobile agent platforms that allocate multifaceted forms of distributed computing. MA allows complete mobility of cooperating applications among supporting platforms to outline a large-scale, loosely-coupled distributed system [1]. Mobile Agents are the software programs that are goal-directed and competent of suspending their implementation on one platform and stirring to another platform where they resurrect execution [1]. More precisely, A mobile agent is a program that can autonomously migrate between various nodes of a network and perform computations on behalf of a user[2]. In other words, Mobile Agents gets the authority to work autonomously towards a goal, and interact with other Mobile Agents as well. Agents may be static (stationary), always resident at a single platform; or dynamic