This paper introduces research being carried out into the measurement of the quality of e-commerce systems. Considerable work has been done on software metrics in the last few decades but e-commerce specific metrics seem only applicable to already deployed systems. It is proposed that a set of metrics is needed, which can be applied from the earlier stages of E-Commerce system development to im...

Automatizing information commerce requires languages to represent the typical information commerce processes. Existing languages and standards cover either only very specific types of business models or are too general to capture in a concise way the specific properties of information commerce processes. We introduce a language that is specifically designed for information commerce. It can be d...

The rapid growth of u-commerce, the new generation of e-commerce, together with the need for the adoption of new technologies, has necessitated the need for effective organizational changes to this challenging and eminent trend. The authors posit that firms should explore the consumers’ perception of u-commerce and further exploit the strategic advantages of u-commerce with reference to their a...

The study of technology adoption has been a hot topic among researchers in the IS community in recent years. With the increased use of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have taken advantage of the potential benefits that e-commerce can provide. However, a significant number of SMEs have not adopted e-commerce yet. This study surveyed manag...

Despite the proliferation of e-commerce adoption by SMEs and the world-wide growth of e-commerce, in general there is a paucity of empirical studies that examine the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs in the Middle East. In this paper, the authors provide insights into the salient e-commerce adoption issues by focusing on Saudi Arabian SMEs. This research was designed using a qualitative approach t...

Condensing the understanding of Businessto-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce and its causal relations with the environment in a set of future meaningful, specific and exhaustive variables is a prerequisite for long-term forecasting. There is no consensus regarding even present quantitative estimates of e-commerce, nor does current research pinpoint immediate cause or effect. In around 50 semi-structure...

Component-based e-commerce technology is a recent trend towards resolving the e-commerce challenge at both system and application levels. Instead of delivering a system as a prepackaged monolith system containing any conceivable feature, component-based systems consist of a lightweight kernel to which new features can be added in the form of components. In order to identify the central problems...

This paper discusses the structure and components of databases for real-world e-commerce systems. We first present an integrated 8-process value chain needed by the e-commerce system and its associated data in each stage of the value chain. We then discuss logical components of a typical e-commerce database system. Finally, we illustrate a detailed design of an e-commerce transaction processing...

Today e-commerce has become crucial element to transform some of the world countries into an information society. However, several calls have been made to meet the association between the perceptions of e-commerce adoption barriers in developing countries. This paper focuses on the main challenges facing the growth of e-commerce in SMEs in Libya. Further, a deep investigation concerning e-comme...