....................................................................................... 7 Introduction........................................................................................ 9 I. E-commerce: A Need for Efficient Management ............ 11 A. Best Practices ....................................................................... 12 1. Dell Model: A Best Practice ....................

As the sharing economy develops in sustainable transportation, car-sharing platforms improve allocation efficiency of idle cars to customers. However, as travel demand increases, and vehicle type becomes various, market faces a new challenge satisfy customers’ diverse needs for quality-differentiated cars. Each customer would like choose right car type, while manufacturing firm e-commerce platf...

Declaration The work in this thesis has not been submitted previously, in whole or in part, for any other academic award and is my original work, except where acknowledged. The work has been carried out since the beginning of my research program in August 2007.Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to acknowledge, appreciate and thank all those who have helped, supported and encouraged me thro...

today, every enterprise needs to have its own business model. a business model explains what exactly the costumers want, how they want it and how the company can satisfy them. this can actually leads to the industry's competitive advantages and help the enterprises to revive them. in the late decades the prevalence of e-commerce leads it to be known as a tool to organize the business and s...

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major cause of diarrheal disease around the globe, causing an estimated 380,000 deaths annually. The disease is caused by a wide variety of strains. Here, we report the genome sequence of ETEC strain B2C, which was isolated from an American soldier in Vietnam.

Motivated by previously identified user perceptual tolerance to varying multimedia Quality of Service (QoS), this paper shows that the Business to Customer (B2C) user experience with mobile commerce (m-commerce) can be enhanced if the underlying mobile communication is subject to certain thresholds of perceptual QoS (PQoS).

This paper presents an approach aimed at fully exploiting semantics of supply/demand descriptions in B2C and C2C e-marketplaces. Distinguishing aspects include logic-based explanation of request results, semantic ranking of matchmaking results, logic-based request refinement. The user interface has been designed and implemented to be immediate and simple, and it requires no knowledge of any log...

Multi-agent based negotiation is the emergent functionality of E-Commerce. There are several approach deployed by various researcher in the B2C, E-Commerce model. In this research paper we provide some observations on various negotiation mechanism which are deployed in various E-Commerce model Keywords--Negotiation, Agent, multi-agent-system, ANN, Data mining,. _________________________________...

A mixed 0-1 integer programming model of Combined Location Routing and Inventory Problem (CLRIP) with fuzzy random demand has been proposed in B2C E-commerce distribution environment. Demands of customers and distribution centers have been assumed to be fuzzy random variables.