With the development of Electronic Commerce (EC), the need of offering brokerage facilities in a distributed environment has arisen. Customers need, in many situations, systems (broker agents) that simplify them the access to the different products and services provided by suppliers. On the other hand, the existence of brokers increases the globality of EC, since customers are even more unaware...

This paper proposes an integrated approach for e-commerce business modeling and system design, based on the Reference Model of the Open Distributed Processing (RM/ODP) standard. Initially, the main concerns of e-commerce with respect to business modeling are presented; next, the requirements induced by this modeling and the generic e-commerce system interfaces are discussed. Then, the adoption ...

With the gradual popularity of online sales and enhancement consumers’ low-carbon awareness, e-commerce supply chain (LCECSC) has developed rapidly. However, most current research on LCECSC assumes that decision-making body is rational, there less irrational behavior e-platform altruistic preference. Therefore, aiming at composed a single manufacturer, this paper establishes two basic models wi...

T he Internet gives vendors an easy way to set up shop for electronic commerce throughout the world. In an extension of mailand phone-order transactions, customers usually pay for e-commerce goods and services through a credit card. The transmission of credit card numbers requires vendor sites to support encryption through the Secure Sockets Layer1 or Transport Layer Security2 protocols. SSL ca...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

Customer preference learning and recommendation for (e-)commerce is a widely researched problem where a number of different solutions have been proposed. In this study we propose and implement a novel approach to the problem of extracting and modelling user preferences in commerce using latent topic models. We explore the use of probabilistic topic models on transaction itemsets considering bot...

Communities are perceived to be a critical success factor of Electronic Commerce. Communities are characterized in terms of their common language, semantics, ontologies as well as their organization, the communication protocols, or processes. Examples of communities are: Topic-centered communities or communities of interest in electronic marketing, e.g., readers communities at Amazon.com, The W...

Technical interoperability is often considered as a pre-requisite for a global and open e-commerce marketplace. The proliferation of e-commerce architectures encourages market fragmentation. The commodity view of technologies seriously undermines the viability of individual e-commerce businesses. The disconnect between technologies and business practices creates short termism in business model ...