In Japan, it is illegal to sell pharmaceuticals on Internet auction sites, although a considerable number of pharmaceuticals are listed on such sites. We investigated the current situation regarding the illegal trade in pharmaceuticals on Japanese Internet auction sites and the responses of site administrators to such transactions. We searched for pharmaceuticals and "gray" items that were susp...

Among the many issues in the ongoing national discussion about the Internet is its use in the voting process. Because voting determines who runs the government and entails two absolute requirements—the secret ballot and security from fraud—the stakes are higher than for many other transactions routinely conducted via the Internet. Public confidence about Internet security is increasing, but man...

the main purpose of this paper is to apply of islamic transactions rules on iran capital market contracts by studying the economic actions of the individuals in tehran stock market. based on the theories of four major islamic laws, i.e., no damage rule, gaining from invalid activities rule, peril rule and usury rule; the basic islamic assumptions is drawn in order to testify in the capital mark...

Parties conducting electronic businesses and transactions have usually never seen each other face-to-face, nor exchanged currency or hard copies of documents hand-to-hand. The society at large prefers transactions that involve physical contact of people, cash and cheques to that which is done over a telecommunication network such as the Internet. However, security, trust and convenience are amo...

The aim of this paper is to examine indications for a common currency system on the Internet for spontaneous transactions. First the framework for such a currency system and the theoretical background on common currencies are discussed. Examples of common currencies already in use are evaluated according to a set of criteria developed by the authors. Furthermore the theoretical ideas and the in...

 Many Internet sites and media companies (Amazon.com, YouTube, Netflix, Yahoo, Tripadvisor, Last.fm, IMDb) are developing and deploying RSs as part of the services they provide to their subscribers;  At institutions of higher education around the world, undergraduate and graduate courses are dedicated entirely to RSs; tutorials on RSs are very popular at computer science conferences;  There ...

Advances in computers and telecommunications and the development of the Internet have been applied to develop new transaction technologies that lower transaction costs. By lowering transaction costs, these changes in transaction technology make possible transaction innovation, that is, the development of new types of market transactions. Transaction innovation changes not only business methods ...

Long-running “business transactions” which may be processed by discrete organizations across the public internet differ from classical atomic transactions in requiring increased protocol security and interoperability, and relaxable atomicity, isolation and durability properties. A protocol is required which is independent of communications mechanism, is capable of supporting fully ACID transact...

In this paper a novel payment system for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) commerce transactions is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and merchants. In this system, financial institutions become partners in the e-commerce transaction, conducted by their customers over the Internet. The innovation of the proposed system is the reduction of the involvement of the financ...