Based on the specific characteristics of electronic commerce (ECommerce) requirements for an adequate system support, this contribution gives an overview of the respective distributed systems technology which is (or will be shortly) available for open and heterogeneous electronic commerce applications. Starting from basic communication mechanisms this includes (transactionally secure) remote pr...

Many companies have found out the hard way that successful e-commerce requires more than a flashy web presence. Existing business processes must be seamlessly integrated with the new, electronic form of interaction with suppliers and customers. Despite this insight, little research has focused on the transformation of doing business to achieve the presumed benefits of e-commerce. This paper giv...

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...

Electronic Commerce (EC) has changed and is still changing the way business is conducted around the world. The commercialization of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) has driven EC to become one of the most promising channels for inter-organizational business processes. Despite the economic downturn and the burst of the “dot-com” bubble, EC is expected to continue its significant growth. EC ...

Electronic commerce has changed the way businesses interacting with consumers and peers. For both B2B and B2C transactions, it becomes more and more important to make the traditional negotiation price mechanism automated and intelligent [1]. Automated negotiation has become the core of the next generation intelligent e-commerce. The main principle is using software agent technology to make the ...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

The Internet has engendered a new type of commerce, commonly referred to as electronic commerce, or eCommerce. But despite the phenomenal growth of eCommerce, the vast majority of transactions still take place within the realm of traditional, physical commerce. Pocket BargainFinder is a handheld device that seeks to bridge the gap between electronic and traditional commerce. It represents one o...

With the advent of electronic commerce, it was expected that electronic retailers would replace conventional retailers. However, in industries such as grocery industry, electronic commerce itself is struggling and many e-tailers are dying out. Meanwhile, conventional retailers such as off-line travel agencies still seem to stay in business in the industries where dot-com companies are successfu...

By secure electronic transaction (SET) protocol, business and customers can construct different electronic commerce models on the Internet. In this paper, we propose a method based on Petri net models and techniques of software engineering to detect unusual electronic commerce transactions. Users can construct all electronic commerce transactions of business and customers by SET. Because of fea...