Modern Electronic Commerce environments are heavily webbased and involve issues such as distributed execution, multiuser interactive access or interface with and use of middleware platforms. Thus, their components exhibit the properties of communication, cooperation and coordination as in CSCW, groupware or workflow management systems. In this paper we examine the potential of using coordinatio...

E-commerce systems provide Web users with different facilities such as online banking, online (window) shopping, and online auctions. However, behind the provision of these facilities are certain requirements posed by the e-commerce applications including: data consistency, concurrency, dynamic behaviour, fault tolerance and high availability. Our research identifies that traditional ACID and a...

With the recent year’s steps forward and progressive growth in M-Technology (Mobile Technology), an assortment of business activities can be coordinated through remote frameworks (Wireless Networks). Mobile Commerce (MCommerce) is experiencing quick advancement to the extent capacities of phones, services, applications, network and standard execution. Regardless, this speedy change of M-Tech an...

This paper integrates and extends research on e-commerce in the developing world. We use three categories of feedback systems–economic, sociopolitical and cognitive—to offer a simple model of e-commerce barriers in the developing world. We also examine characteristics of e-business models that can be successfully employed in developing countries. Then, we provide the case of an e-business model...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce)—is the term for the extension of electronic commerce (e commerce) from wired to wireless computers and telecommunications, and from fixed locations to anytime, anywhere and anyone(Keen and Mackintosh, 2001), also defined as all activities related to a (potential) commercial transaction conducted through communications networks that interface with wireless (or mobile...

Nowadays, application of e-commerce for companies or economic corporates and also entities and states has changed to an unavoidable issue, seeming necessary to observe its advantages and disadvantages. Due to the performance of processes in virtual or cyber site, e-commerce has been always followed by many worries, challenges and problems for all users including companies, people and states. To...

despite many researchers conducted on electronic commerce, few studies have been performed in the field of internet businesses (ibs) with no up-to-date and applicable law. as a result, using library and field study, in one section we state the general rules and regulations governing all ibs, and in the other section we survey appropriative rules and regulations governing every model of ib. prov...

Mobile commerce is increasingly perceived as a powerful lever to foster growth of local economy and an opportunity to generate revenue. However, both the literature and empirical evidence have revealed that there exist perils hidden in decision-making by mobile commerce advocates. A system dynamics (SD) approach is used in this article to analyze how factors will influence the process of mobile...

Trust is one of the most important factors that influence the successful application of network service environments, such as e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and online social networks. Computation models associated with trust and reputation have been paid special attention in both computer societies and service science in recent years. In this paper, a dynamical computation model of repu...

Electronic commerce and the vast amounts of real-time information available through means of EDI and the Internet are reshaping the way enterprises conduct business. A new computational infrastructure and models are needed for a business to gain a competitive edge through effective use of this information base. One of the key issues in competing in the electronic marketplace is product/service ...