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ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 329-353Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2010.502975
Keywords
complex adaptive system; e-commerce transaction network; multi-agent modelling and simulation; open API; 2-mode network; social network analysis; systems science; systems theory; cybernetics
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- International S&T Cooperation Program of China [2007DFA11110]
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We provide a formal definition of an e-commerce transaction network. Agent-based modelling is used to simulate e-commerce transaction networks. For real-world analysis, we studied the open application programming interfaces (APIs) from eBay and Taobao e-commerce websites and captured real transaction data. Pajek is used to visualise the agent relationships in the transaction network. We derived one-mode networks from the transaction network and analysed them using degree and betweenness centrality. Integrating multi-agent modelling, open APIs and social network analysis, we propose a new way to study large-scale e-commerce systems.
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