Technology developments such as Web Services, GRID Computing and peer-to-peer toolkits are rapidly changing the way systems deployed in public networks interact. Large-scale usage of these technologies would very likely lead to environments which have many of the features commonly considered in Agent mediated e-commerce research: large-scale, dynamic populations of automated trading systems. Th...

The Information Technology Act 2000 has enacted in India on 9th June 2000. This Act has mentioned provision of authentication of electronic document. It is the need of hour at that time that such provision is needed in the Indian Law system, especially for electronic commerce and electronic governance. Electronic commerce”, which involve the use of alternatives to paper based methods of communi...

Most observers would agree that the explanatory capabilities of current theories of electronic intermediation on the Internet fall short of having the desired power. Instead, the patchwork quilt of theoretical assertions, conflicting empirical results, and revealing case studies that characterize the existing literature point to the need for a new synthesis. This article makes an attempt to do ...

The advent of Internet-based electronic commerce over the past decade has given businesses an unprecedented marketing opportunity. As the Internet-using population has grown, so too has the potential market size for any business that develops an e-commerce enabled Website.1 This market has continued to develop, with steady growth in the number of people shop online. For example, the US Commerce...

Internet-based commerce provides great opportunities for merchants, consumers, and business aÆliates, but it may seriously threaten users' privacy. Some of the paths to loss of privacy are quite familiar (e.g., mining of credit-card data), but some are new or much more serious than they were in earlier regimes. We present two points about the economics of electronic commerce: There are economic...

Internet continues to spawn new markets and electronic commerce is changing many market conventions. Old commercial practices are being adapted to the new conditions of immediacy brought forth by the global networks, and new products, services, as well as new practices are beginning to appear. Agent-based technologies could play a critical role in this regard with the potential of evetually del...

by the explosive growth of b2b e-commerce transactions in international supply chains and the rapid increase of business documents in iran’s cross-border trading, effective management of trade processes over borders is vital in b2b e-commerce systems. structure of the localized model in this paper is based on three major layers of a b2b e-commerce infrastructure, which are messaging layer, busi...

Full-scale electronic trading systems were fora long time considered to be expensive in implementation as well as operation and restricted to certain application areas, such as flight reservation and financial stock exchange. The implications of electronic commerce described by researchers were not realized intersectorally or for the whole economy. Times have changed now. Global value-added net...

In recent years, electronic check (echeck) has been more and more popular on the electronic commerce application. For this reason, there were many scholars have proposed the security issues for related echeck. Chang et al. present their views on echeck to improve the past scheme. Chang et al.’s scheme achieves the security of system and provides mutual authentication between payer and payee. Ho...

The adoption and use of electronic commerce by many firms was shaped by a number of assumptions about how it adds value to economic exchange. Many of these assumptions have direct relevance for the interaction between e-commerce and geography, in that they emphasized the ability of ecommerce to transcend distance and reach into markets without physical presence. The belief in this ability was b...