Agent-based systems are increasingly used to support business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. The design complexity resulting from the multiple interconnected systems in these domains has to be managed in order to reduce costs and time to market. This paper introduces the Role-Algebraic Multi-Agent System Design (RAMASD) approach. RAMASD utilizes rol...

Business-to-Business(B2B) ecommerce has been in existence ever since GM introduced Electronic Data Interchange in the 1980’s as a technology to do business with its suppliers (Premkumar, 2003). The utilization of the Internet for business paved the way for web-based B2B. The arena in which B2B commerce takes place is called an Electronic Marketplace (EM). B2B is a more significant component of ...

Since their rise during the 1990s, business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces have been subject to numerous scientific articles. Especially during the dot-com era, these research efforts have been accompanied by several start-ups such as CommerceOne, with mixed market success. For researchers looking for promising areas of IS research, these facts raise the question whether B2B electron...

The literature on electronic commerce has long recognised the importance of B2B solutions for the industry, but to date, there are very few studies focusing on the marketing aspects of such solutions. This paper examines the obstacles and challenges that marketing business-tobusiness E-Marketplace models faces and discuss several factors from the buyers and suppliers point of views. The B2B mod...

As a platform to facilitate information sharing, business-to-business (B2B) electronic markets allow buyers and sellers to conduct transactions in a digital environment with greater information transparency. Vertical information transparency about demand has been shown to be beneficial to supply chain management. Thus, information technology (EDI, B2B e-markets) is believed to offer great benef...

With the prosperity of worldwide B2B electronic market, it is necessary to explore the role of its users’ behavior but not only the user base effect on their sustainable competitiveness. The quality of users’ behavior, which is indicated by the activity of two-sided users, are critical important for B2B electronic market makers as there is “chicken and egg problem” between these two users. In t...

Fueled by vast investment and immense management interest, B2B electronic marketplaces are rapidly evolving into a new volatile intermediation/informediation industry. While much work has been done on the efficiency and welfare of a single marketplace, the competition and interactions between marketplaces remain largely unexplored. This research attempts to analyze the dynamics of competition b...

The electronic commerce for Small and Medium Enterprises on the part of Business-to-Business trade is experiencing difficulties due to the nature of the processes involved. SMEs fail to penetrate the B2B market due to lack of understanding, lack of finances and lack of IT experts that can create customized applications for standardized B2B ecommerce, such as ebXML. COTS software costs a lot, an...

The electronic commerce assurance market has been estimated to be potentially worth $11 billion. To date, the focus of assurance services has largely been on web commerce (and, therefore, business-to-consumer or B2C) related services, leaving the business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce market relatively untapped. Yet, with electronic data interchange (EDI) being mandated by large compani...

In the recent rapidly changing environment of the Digital Economy, business-to-business (B2B) electronic markets are adopting cooperative strategies in lieu of competitive strategies in order to obtain resources so that they can succeed in the market. This paper aims to develop formal theory-based understanding of a range of observed cooperative strategies by conducting an empirical study of B2...