UN/CEFACT ́s Modeling Methodology (UMM) has been developed to analyze and design B2B business processes independent of the underlying exchange technology. It became the methodology of choice for developing ebXML business processes. Another technology for realizing B2B partnerships is Web Services. Currently, the business process execution languages (BPEL) seem to be the winner amongst the Web Se...

The modern environment requires one business to interact with another. CRM is all the tools, technologies and procedures to manage, improve, or facilitate sales, support and related interactions with customers, prospects, and business partners throughout the enterprise. It assumes that CRM is involved in every B2B transaction. Despite the general notion that CRM systems were created for the cus...

in the explosive growth of business to business (b2b) electronic trades, electronic markets have received a great deal of attention recently. the obtained profit of trading in e-b2b market encourage market participants to remain in the market. market participants consist of: sellers, buyers, and market owner. in this paper the expected profit function for each market participant has been define...

There is no review paper available on Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to e-commerce to the best of knowledge. This paper is a survey of various AI techniques that are used in the design and development of ecommerce systems. The techniques are categorized into three groups namely, AI techniques for B2B ecommerce, AI techniques for B2C e-commerce, and AI techniques for both B2B and B2C ...

This paper describes research supporting the development of a conceptual model for understanding the sources of business value of Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Markets. Based on six case studies and an analysis of current literature, Aggregation, Matching, and Integration emerged as the three key sources of business value. The framework provides a structured and systematic approach for ...

The WWW provides less expensive, more accessible technologies and communication infrastructures, speeding up the flow of information in supply chains. This paper presents a B2B architecture using Semantic Web technologies that allow for B2B relationships termed “Opportunistic Commerce.” The trucking industry is used to demonstrate how this technology finds business relationships producing advan...

Recently, new standards for business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce transactions, to reduce extended record locking, relaxed standard database transaction properties. In this paper, we provide a parallel methodology employing a mobile/intelligent agent framework to alleviate extended record locking, while adhering to standard database transaction properties. Our methodology provides a minimum 30%...