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Abstract

In today’s world, more and more stress in given to information and its access. And with this more emphasis is given to the mobility of information. This trend has led to evolution of electronic commerce which is acting as a promising way the business is conducted. Computer systems have evolved from centralized system to client server paradigm then to mobile agent paradigm. Mobile agent systems consist of agent and hosts which provide working environment to the agents. Mobile agent consists of program code and execution state and when agent is dispatched to some other host both are transferred. They travel to different trading sites and locate the most befitting deal, negotiate the deal and even finalize them on behalf of their owners. This paper reviews the working of mobile agents in field of ecommerce.