Online game involves a very large number of users who are interconnected and interact with each other via the Internet. We studied the characteristics of exchanging virtual goods with real money through processes called “real money trading (RMT)”. Œis exchange might inƒuence online game user behaviors and cause damage to the reputation of game companies. We examined ingame transactions to revea...

The Internet has increasingly replaced or supplemented other communication and transaction channels. Due to the simplicity of getting information and conducting transactions, a steadily increasing number of consumers are using the World Wide Web for informing themselves and shopping online. From a company’s point of view, these changes in consumers’ behavior have generated a multitude of opport...

Service provisioning is at the base of business economy, and a major driver for business-tobusiness interaction. The strong competition induced by the globalisation of the markets is forcing businesses to concentrate on their core competencies, and to rely on specialised third parties for the provisioning of corollary service infrastructure. New expectations and opportunities are emerging for b...

This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document specifies rules for defining voucher properties in XML syntax. A voucher is a logical entity that represents a right to claim goods or services. A voucher can be used to transfer a wide range of electronic values, includi...

From Amazon.com to Zfurniture.com, the e-commerce industry is booming. Ecommerce, generally defined as transactions that involve the exchange of goods and services by electronic means [1] , is most commonly transacted via the Internet, a worldwide network of computers and other communications equipment linked by high-speed data lines and wireless systems. [2] The Internet and the World Wide Web...

This paper examines whether customer use of virtual channels varies with the type of service activities (e.g. information search, transactions) they engage in. Based on data from a multichannel bank, we first investigate the impact of customer distance to the nearest branch on the degree of use of virtual channels (internet and phone, aggregated), for different types of activities. Second, when...

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...

Internet E-Commerce has been flourishing for the last few years, especially with the advent of world wide web. Mobile Electronic Commerce has started recently to appear in the scene by exploiting the advantages of internet, mobile computing and mobile communications in order to provide a large number of advanced services to mobile users. The potentials of mobile e-commerce are enormous while re...

There has been an enormous increase of transactions and cooperative-computing services on the Internet. This is both a technical and a social phenomenon. Transactions and services over the Internet have global reach and users, known or unknown to the service provider, might be interested in availing the access or participate in the cooperative transaction in a distributed manner. Thus, it is ve...

Simply put, a Web service refers to a programmable Web application that is universally accessible using standard Internet protocols. This paradigm of Web services has been changing the Internet from a repository of data into a repository of services along the following three dimensions: (1) By means that business organizations expose their services on the Internet and make them accessible via s...