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After all buyers terminate, the sellers and the container itself should terminate. The program itself runs perfectly in terminal, but travis will get stuck.

Cannot use shutdown behavious because that does not give time to buyers to buy 3 books.

For current progress please check this branch.

For travis execution details, check this
@argenos please help !

There are 2 types of agents

1. Buyer
2. Seller

• Each buyer agent receives the title of the book to buy as a command line argument and requests all known seller agents to provide an offer. As soon as an offer is received the buyer agent accepts it and issues a purchase order. If more than one seller agent provides an offer the buyer agent accepts the best one (lowest price). Having bought a book the buyer agent repeats above actions for another book. This goes on till the buyer agent has 3 books.
• Each seller agent has a catalogue of books for sale. Seller agents continuously wait for requests from buyer agents. When asked to provide an offer for a book they check if the requested book is in their catalogue and in this case reply with the price. Otherwise they refuse. When they receive a purchase order they serve it and remove the requested book from their catalogue.

There are 2 types of books

1. ebooks
2. paperback

To Do
The following should be running simultaneously.

• at least 20 buyer agents and
• 3 book seller agents

Each book seller should have 4 different titles for each type of book

• They have unlimited ebooks for each ebook title
• They have 20 paperback books (5 books for each paperback title)

Each customer should buy at least 3 books before the simulation is over