In this Chapter, we have characterized the bus traffic generated by the SPECweb96 benchmark in a four-processor SMP system with NT/4 operating system. We observe that the benchmark is very network intensive, in terms of computation and bandwidth consumption. The study shows that the transactions across the four processors are well balanced and do not have any long-range dependencies. There is a...

In the past decade, methods of effecting banking and other financial transactions via the Internet in the United States have quickly become more and more sophisticated. This paper will examine, from the viewpoint of a U.S. legal practitioner, the implications of this trend towards conducting financial transactions electronically. The focus of this paper is not on legal theories, but rather on t...

The last two years have seen a rapid development of the use of the Internet in doing economic transactions (E-Commerce). Now that the euphoria has subsided, it is necessary to closely examine which E-Commerce applications will remain and why. Our paper will focus on Electronic B2B Marketplaces. We first define and classify this category of e-commerce and present the value generating models depl...

With the expansion of Web sites to include business functions, a user interfaces with e-businesses through an interactive and multistep process, which is often time-consuming. For mobile users accessing the Web over digital cellular networks, the failure of the wireless link, a frequent occurrence, can result in the loss of work accomplished prior to the disruption. This work must then be repea...

This paper describes a lightweight security mechanism for protecting electronic transactions conducted over the mobile platform. In a typical mobile computing environment, one or more of the transacting parties are based on some wireless handheld devices. Electronic transactions conducted over the mobile platform are gaining popularity and it is widely accepted that mobile computing is a natura...

Rogel Patawaran is cofounder of iQSecure Solutions, Inc., a secure web mail company, which began in 2002 and is currently based in Santa Monica, California. Its unique service enables hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offi ces the opportunity to have secure web-based video and telephone conferencing by simply switching online services off ered by this innovative company. In addition, he is cofou...

Presently, the chief problem facing Internet banking is the security of online transactions. That’s why, 3-tier security is used to make the transaction more secure. Among the 3-Tier Security layers, Application layer security comes first as it is the topmost layer in OSI model. The visitors always assume about the security and safety of these transactions, and so they are steadily lose their t...

ebXML is becoming the new international standard for the specification and deployment of complex B2B transactions over the internet. ebXML transactions are inherently distributed, involving many actors exchanging XML messages with each other according to complex flows and rules. This complexity hampers validation of the correctness of a modelled business transaction by business experts. To alle...

distributed transaction processing, optimistic commit, transparent transaction compensation, e-services, Internet, e-commerce Web based services, also termed E-services are either stand-alone or use other web services for performing their tasks. Such E-services that depend on other E-services are termed composite e-services. The composition can be static or dynamic, i.e. either these e-services...

T he worldwide proliferation of the Internet has led to the emergence of an extensive range of services—one of the most popular being electronic commerce (e-commerce).1 Recent technological advances in the design of portable devices, along with increasing high-speed Internet access and mobile networking technologies, have enabled users to employ such devices anywhere, anytime to perform e-comme...