隨著語意網 (Semantic Web)技術的提倡，知識本體 (Ontology)的研究與發展主要是著重在異質系統之間的知識分享與再利用。在智慧型代理人 (Intelligent Agent)相關領域的研究方面，也隨著知識本體的興起，使得它更具有抽象智慧與進階的處理能力。目前，在企業交易代理人 (Business Transaction Agent)的研究上大都著重於資料探勘的領域，而欠缺實用的功能性。為了解決此一問題，我們提出以知識本體與協商協定 (Negotiation Protocol)的概念為基礎，開發出結合協商功能與知識本體概念搜尋對應功能的自動化企業交易協商代理人 (Automated Business Transaction Negotiation Agent, ABTNA)。另外，我們也以採購電腦零件為案例，來驗證ABTNA系統在實務上的應用。該系統可以促成買賣雙方代理人協商的自動化，因而縮減網路購物流程中資訊篩選與商品議價所耗費的時間與人力。 As the semantic web technology has been promoted, the research and development of ontology is focused on the knowledge sharing and reusing between heterogeneous systems. Due to the arising of ontology, current researches of intelligent agent have achieved more abstract intelligence and advanced computability. In recent years, most researches about business transaction agent are emphasized on the area of data mining and they have lack of practical functionality. To solve this problem, we propose a concept based on ontology and negotiation protocol to develop an Automated Business Transaction Negotiation Agent (ABTNA). In addition, we use procuring computer components as an example to illustrate the real application of ABTNA System. This system can achieve automated negotiation between buyer agent and seller agent to reduce the time and human intervention for filtering product information and price negotiation.
