The absence of manageable global key distribution schemes is seriously hindering the deployment of basic security services in the In-ternet. The emergence of cryptosystems based on public key technology has represented a signiicant improvement in this direction by removing the need of a mutual agreement on the encryption key. However, the certiicate structures that bind a user to his public key...

This research takes advantage of the features of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), constructing an Internet-mediated, knowledge-sharing environment where product information management (PIM) is fully implemented. Therein XML files serve as the basic exchange and storage format of knowledge texts in the transaction-matching process. Under this configuration, all sorts of product information ...

In order to be considered secure, a payment system needs to address a number of security issues. Besides fundamental security requirements, like confidentiality, data integrity, authentication and non-repudiation, another important requirement for a secure payment system is fair exchange. Many existing payment protocols require that customers must pay for products before their delivery (in the ...

This paper examines the network interdomain routing information exchanged between backbone service providers at the major U.S. public Internet exchange points. Internet routing instability, or the rapid fluctuation of network reachability information, is an important problem currently facing the Internet engineering community. High levels of network instability can lead to packet loss, increase...

Purchase decisions are complex processes that follow economic, psychological and consumer behaviour models. These processes have been largely explored and subsequent marketing strategies have been derived from them. Selling products and services over the Internet complicates the process introducing a technical intermediary into this system. To facilitate a maximum of transactions initiated via ...

Engineering Internet Commerce is about building web-enabled enterprise information systems to carry out business transactions over the Internet. This engineering task is related to three aspects: the requirement specification, the Internet technology, and the development methodology. In the requirement specification, the business analysis and design is conducted to create a semantic business mo...

The Internet is changing the transactional paradigms under which businesses-to-business marketers operate. Business-to-business marketers that take advantage of the operational efficiencies and effectiveness that emerge from utilizing the Internet in transactions are outperforming firms that utilize traditional transactional processes. As an example, Dell computers, by utilizing business-to-bus...

Adoption of the Internet by a critical mass of the world population (1.25 billion users as of 2007, according to Internet World Stats, 2007) has changed the nature and scope of commercial transactions. Increasingly more people worldwide engage in “buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging products, services, and/or information via computer networks, including Internet” (Turban, King, Viehlan...

With the development of the information technology, using Internet to pay for goods and services has become a very popular application. The traditional forms of payment can not be applied to e-commerce environment. Because of the complexity of online transactions related to capital flows and goods flows, the transaction process requires higher security and reliability. One mature approach for e...