The development and implementation of virtual educational environments is now becoming a strategic advantage as is becoming an integral part of the new universities. The Deakin Electronic Trading Community is an online education system that attempts to solve the problems of providing supportive educational tools in the education of electronic commerce.

This paper designs an electronic commerce system that integrates conventional electronic commerce services with contemporary WWW advantages, such as comprehensive coverage and agents for information search and selection. We use a user-centered approach and apply data mining techniques in the design of agents for information search and selection. There are various agents in this electronic comme...

The absence of a platform for secure electronic commerce is widely recognised. Across the globe, a host of Certification Authorities (CAs) have emerged to seize the opportunity for issuing digital certificates that constitute the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Yet the take-up of the technology has been bitterly disappointing. The market for digital certificates has failed to reach the critica...

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a study researching the diffusion and the adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. It reports new research that identifies and explores the key issues that positively and negatively influence retailers in Saudi Arabia regarding the adoption of electronic commerce. Retailers in Saudi Arabia have been reserved in their adoption of electronicall...

Following the exponential growth of the Internet and World Wide Web, electronic commerce already accounts for some $1.5 billion a year. But the scope and volume of e-commerce is likely to increase further sharply because of advances in agent technology, i.e. applications where users delegate the authority to search and filter information, schedule meeting or negotiate agreements, to software ag...

There is an increasing need for various web-service, e-commerce and e-business sites to provide personalized recommendations to on-line customers. This paper proposes a new type of personalized recommendation agents called fuzzy cognitive agents. Fuzzy cognitive agents are designed to give personalized suggestions based on the user’s current personal preferences, other user’s common preferences...

An important ingredient in agent-mediated electronic commerce is the presence of intelligent mediating agents that assist electronic commerce participants (e.g. individual users, other agents, organisations). These mediating agents are in principle autonomous agents that interact with their environments (e.g. other agents and web-servers) on behalf of participants who have delegated tasks to th...

Mobile agents are an important technology in e-commerce systems and offer new possibilities for the e-commerce applications. This paper examines some mobile agent integrity protocols and proposes a new protecting protocol of mobile agent integrity. It can defend most known attacks, provides encryption transmission and route secrecy of mobile agents.

We present a generic formal framework to specify e-commerce systems. Specifically, we introduce a formalism to represent the behavior of the agents involved in the system. We will concentrate only on the high level behavior, that is, the one related to the economic performance of the agents. Finally, we apply our framework to the specification of the e-commerce system Kasbah.

In this paper a simulation analysis of certain trust models (complex PKI architectures) with regard to the security support of B2B applications on the Internet is presented. The objective of such an analysis has been the choice of the most efficient PKI architecture and a solution of the cryptographic interoperability problem. A simulation model of protected B2B e-commerce has also been present...