Literature search and delivery in the World Wide Web is a rapidly expanding market. Up to now the search is mostly cost-free. But in the future we expect the appearance of more and more providers charging for their services. The main problems are finding the right provider and extracting the information. In this paper we present a system for intelligent information search and extraction from mu...

Mobile computing paradigm has emerged due to advances in wireless or cellular networking technology. This rapidly expanding technology poses many challenging research problems in the area of mobile database systems. The mobile users can access information independent of their physical location through wireless connections. However, accessing and manipulating information without restricting user...

lack of trust is one of the key bottle necks in e-commerce development. nowadays many advanced technologies are trying to address the trust issues in e-commerce. one among them suggests using suitable user interfaces. this paper investigates the functionality and capabilities of 3d graphical user interfaces in regard to trust building in the customers of next generation of b2c e-commerce websit...

The global online shopping market has exhibited consistent growth, exceeding an annual average growth rate of 10% from 2006 to 2010; however, the online shopping market in Taiwan demonstrated an astounding growth rate, surpassing 35% during the same period. In the current competitive and rapidly expanding market environment, shopping website providers must establish effective methods for measur...

Developments in mobile communications and ubiquitous computing have heralded an era of ubiquitous commerce (ucommerce).This paper studies the concept of ubiquitous computing and its adaption to commerce with new issues associated. With the rapid advancement in field of networking and communications, no aspect of human life is untouched. Commercial activities are also affected by the new advance...

The increasing complexity of enterprise applications, the expanding number of networked machines, and the rapid deployment of Internet-based business applications (e-commerce), emphasize the importance and value of application management. One of the main problems in current application management products is the amount of time and effort needed to install and customize them. Application auto-di...

Internet provides to us content in the forms of videos, emails and information served up in web pages. With Cloud Computing, the next generation of Internet will allow us to "buy" IT services from a web portal, drastic expanding the types of merchandise available beyond those on e-commerce sites such as eBay, Flipkart and Snapdeal. Our focus is to improve the performance and optimize the storag...

The mobile computing paradigm has emerged due to advances in wireless or cellular networking technology. This rapidly expanding technology poses many challenging research problems in the area of mobile database systems. Mobile users can access information independent of their physical location through wireless connections. However, accessing and manipulating information without restricting user...

Of the array of electronic commerce business models, business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) have been one of the most heralded. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online buying community. E-marketplaces promise to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement activities by replacing traditional manual ...

In this paper, we develop a new model to describe a dynamic revenue-sharing problem between an online shopping mall and a store in an E-commerce market. We formulate the revenue-sharing problem as a dynamic principal-agent problem, which is then transformed to a risk-sensitive stochastic optimal control problem where the objective of the risk-averse shopping mall is to find a risk-sensitive rev...