The paper attempts to survey the existing research and development efforts involving the use of mobile agents and intelligent agents for advanced e-commerce solutions. In particular it aims at providing a representative view of the current research trends in developing intelligent and mobile agentmediated e-commerce including location-aware, mobile and networked comparison-shopping, auction bid...

Mobile commerce (M-commerce) is an attractive research area due to its relative novelty, rapid growth, and great potential in business applications. Over the last decade, various M-commerce applications have been geared to target mobile users and achieved great success. However, most M-commerce applications are developed by different retailers for special purposes and thus lack fully automated ...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which electronic commerce, the World-wide Web (WWW) in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and information-driven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; market-intermediary (agents and brokers connect bu...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) emerged as one of the technologies that could change the way consumers engage in electronic business. Consumers have envisioned it as the mobile “electronic commerce,” which allows them to purchase goods and services using their wireless mobile devices anywhere, anytime. This mobility, supported by a mobile telecommunications infrastructure, is the major characteris...

Based on the specific characteristics of electronic commerce (ECommerce) requirements for an adequate system support, this contribution gives an overview of the respective distributed systems technology which is (or will be shortly) available for open and heterogeneous electronic commerce applications. Starting from basic communication mechanisms this includes (transactionally secure) remote pr...

In this paper we discuss the current status and existing potential of performing efficient and reliable e-commerce in one of the principal trade and transportation hubs of Southeast Asia, namely Hong Kong. We provide an overview of a number of components that are prerequisites for e-commerce. Telecommunications , broadcasting and new digital and interactive services (iTV) form an innovative alt...

Electronic Commerce over the Internet is one of the most rapidly growing areas in todays business. However, considering the most important phase of Electronic Commerce, the payment, it has to be noted that in most currently exploited approaches, support for at least one of the participants is limited. From a general point of view, a couple of requirements for correct payment interactions exist,...

Warehousing and mining sales transaction data to generate summary information, customer profiles, and business rules has become increasingly important in ecommerce. Such summary information and rules have to be extracted from very large collections of transaction data gathered at many distributed sites. This is challenging data mining, both in terms of the magnitude of data involved, and the ne...