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Abstract
Advances in electronic commerce and agent technology are pushing the world rapidly toward ever-increasing e-business automation. The logical development of this movement is agent based electronic commerce, in which software agents act as autonomous (or semi-autonomous) businesses in their own right, buying and selling information goods and services online. We review some of the foreseeable developments and challenges in the growth of agent based electronic commerce.