This paper examines the impact of electronic commerce on business-level strategies. The paper examines electronic commerce (E.C) from the perspective of intra-business E.C., business-to-business E.C., business-toconsumer E.C., and value/supply chain management. Business-level strategies are considered to include: addedvalue, differentiation, cost leadership, focus, and growth source. The paper ...

Since Wang et al. announced their results regarding the susceptibility of MD5 (Crypto’04) and SHA-1 (Crypto’05) hash functions to collision attacks, there have been many papers advancing further aspects of these attacks. What has been lacking is an analysis of the legal effect of these attacks upon electronic commerce transactions. As technological advancements are made, the law will need to ad...

The emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the introduction of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce. Understanding or constructing a mobile or an electronic commerce system is an arduous task because the system involves a wide variety of disciplines and technologies and the technologies are constantly changing. To facilitate underst...

1. Electronic Commerce Electronic commerce challenges our notions of distributed transactions in several ways. I discuss issues how distributed transactions can apply to electronic transactions, with special emphasis on the role of atomic@. I discuss the application of these ideas to two systems I have helped design and build: NetBill (a system for highly atomic micro-transactions) and Cryptogr...

With current evolving technologies, there are significant strides in technologies that support distributed system automation in the electronic commerce domain. The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced technologies that promote automation and enactment in the electronic commerce domain. Moreover, with the addition of scaleable service-oriented computing practices, n...

the internet has transformed the manner of conducting commercial transactions and has created regulatory gaps. these regulatory gaps may impact the effective development of electronic commerce. attempts are being made to regulate electronic contracts both at the national and international level. the present research analyses these attempts, in particular the electronic transaction legislation o...

Today, Electronic Commerce applications are among the most promising application areas of Case-Based Reasoning. When developing Electronic Commerce applications, very often technical issues are addressed very carefully, such as the particular implementation of the underlying CBR system. On the other hand, problems of system deployment sometimes are not paid suucient attention. In this article, ...

As the center of considerable media attention, case study articles, vendor research, and development efforts, electronic commerce technology is entering healthcare and having a profound effect. The simple truth, however, is that after the drama and excitement begins to wear off, completing a successful e-commerce implementation remains good old-fashioned hard, sometimes monotonous work. To be s...