AN XML BASED AGENT SYSTEM FOR GOVERNMENT ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to propose a mobile software agent system that can support government electronic procurement. The so-called "procurement brokering agent" in the system is a software program acts on behalf of government procurement personnel or government contract merchant to retrieve procurement information from a virtual XML-based procurement information database. The proposed system is expected to be able to improve the productivity of government procurement personnel as well as merchants by performing a variety of procurement tasks.