Analog zum Electronic Business wird im Mobile Business zwischen Business-to-Customer(B2C) und Business-to-Business (B2B) unterschieden. Mobile B2B-Anwendungen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie zur Unterstützung von Transaktionen zwischen Unternehmen eingesetzt werden. Mobile B2B-Marktplätze und Anwendungen aus dem Bereich Telemetrie und Supply Chain Management sind hierfür Beispiele. Darüber ...

B y now, the high expectations for business-to-business (B2B) applications have become familiar. Analysts have projected trillions of dollars of B2B transactions within a few years. Companies have begun to deploy B2B integration servers, which connect to existing back-end applications, and send and receive Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents over the Internet to automate business relatio...

In recent years, there has been increasing work where intelligent software agents have been used to support electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents also called Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, has mostly been seen in areas such as service discovery and knowledge management , automated negotiation and pricing, auctioning and transactional reasoning , and ...

12 The advent of the Internet as an instrument for business commerce has fundamentally altered the economy by ushering in increased efficiencies and more transparent markets. Since businesses started conducting Internet transactions in 1995, the growth has been impressive. Forrester Research estimates that worldwide electronic commerce (e-commerce) revenues were about $650 billion in 2000 and p...

Ontologies are crucial in B2B electronic commerce in general and in the Virtual Enterprise scenario in particular, enabling the mutual understanding between multiple business participants. This paper considers the development of a specific ontology in the home automation business area, illustrated in the Virtual Enterprise formation process. The ontology developed for the home automation (domot...

This paper examines electronic marketplaces as one ‘digital economy’ innovation. Great expectations existed for electronic marketplaces in the late 1990s, leading to the establishment of hundreds of new venues for B2B buying and selling. It was feared that the improved efficiency over traditional market mechanisms meant existing business relationships and methods were doomed. Another concern wa...

The advent of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce market has created needs and opportunities for firms to negotiate deals online. Most negotiation support systems (NSS) in past research are text-based and the related findings could not be generalized to negotiating situations utilizing advanced electronic communication technology. This paper investigates the impact of NSS and conflict level o...

The financial industry is in midst of a fundamental transformation. Changes in customer behavior and the impact of information technology are believed to change the financial industry from hierarchical to market-based structures. Although electronic markets in the financial services industry are well known in B2B processes such as e.g. stock exchanges, only little research has been undertaken T...