Covid-19 Sparked the E-Commerce Revolution; Some Benefited, While Others Left in Cold

Are Web Services the Next Revolution in e-Commerce? (Panel)

The B2B E-commerce Revolution: Convergence, Chaos, and Holistic Computing

The Internet has triggered the Fourth Information Revolution, which is leading to fundamental and irreversible changes in the way we do business and in the requirements for the supporting core technologies. Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce, the Information Revolution driver, is estimated to be between a $2.7 and a $7.3 trillion market in 2004. This pot of gold is resulting in massive compe...

The Taxonomic Position of Common Cold Viruses and Some Others

During recent years workers in several countries have isolated a number of "new" viruses from upper respiratory infections. For some of these viruses claims have been made that they cause common colds. Before accepting such claims it is well to be sure of two things: i) that the viruses can be recovered with reasonable frequency from typical common colds in adults; and ii) that they will reprod...

The Continuous Cold-start Problem in e-Commerce Recommender Systems

Many e-commerce websites use recommender systems to recommend items to users. When a user or item is new, the system may fail because not enough information is available on this user or item. Various solutions to this ‘cold-start problem’ have been proposed in the literature. However, many real-life e-commerce applications suffer from an aggravated, recurring version of cold-start even for know...

E-commerce in Production: Some Experiences

In this paper we will report on a number of e-commerce projects at production companies in The Netherlands. We will show that there is not one unique model for the introduction of e-commerce in production companies. Companies can start to use e-commerce at different ends of the organization, with different objectives and with different (positive) outcomes, depending on the market situation and ...