Evidence of new forms of information tools via the World Wide Web increasingly indicate that business-to-consumers e-commerce models require real-time data that enable users to make informative decisions. Although the Web has provided a variety of e-health sites, these sites have offered little in the way of enabling the human resources (HR) function. This article examines health care consumers...

E-Government is now in a stage where effective and secure online transaction services have to be provided. Yet, initial security are primarily technical. Many technical concepts and tools have been developed in the scope of e-Commerce. Applying these to the scope of eGovernment need careful investigations. Security aspects do not, however, concern technical aspects only. The particular security...

In the absence of an opportunity to physically interact with products in the online environment, online information plays a critical role in enabling e-Commerce consumers’ purchase decisions. Thus, it is critical to understand what leads to consumer satisfaction with online information quality. However, despite the rapidly increasing number of consumers who use websites to gather pre-purchase p...

B2C electronic commerce is commonly viewed as a straightforward browsing and purchase process. Current search tools assisting shoppers limit the automatic comparison of products to the price of goods. Allowing merchants to successfully employ differentiation strategies online requires providing the web with semantic content that can represent merchants’ offers and be automatically processed by ...

With the exponential development of e-commerce in recent years, there is an emerging demand for effective negotiation support tools. This paper addresses the possible influence of culture and explanation facility on negotiation performance involving negotiation agents in an e-commerce context. Explanation facility, an important element of knowledge-based systems, has been well recognized for it...

Creating customer value is one of the basic ways to achieve competitive advantage on market. More and more customers satisfy their need for buying products services in a digital surroundings. During last few years, there an increase number who are accessing market using mobile phones making purchasing transactions these devices. The aim paper analyze importance m-commerce within modern values d...

While the Internet serves as a virtual marketplace that is dramatically changing the way business is conducted, security and privacy issues are of deeper concern than ever before. The evolutionary nature of electronic commerce systems, highlights the need for conceptual support for requirements discovery, elaboration and validation. Moreover, there is great need for mechanisms to provide practi...

merce comes from the automation of interactions between businesses and individuals. Game theory is a useful set of tools that can be used by designers of electronic-commerce applications in analyzing and engineering of automated agents and communication protocols. The central theoretical concept used in game theory is the Nash equilibrium. In this article, I show how the outcomes supported by a...

The rise of e-commerce promises particularly great benefits for the practice of large-scale optimization. The World Wide Web already offers information, advice, and remote access to software for solving optimization problems. A variety of client programs are helping to increase the scope and convenience of these tools. More sophisticated application service providers will further disseminate op...

This contribution represents a rather radical abridgement and recasting of my paper “Digital Technology and the Productivity Paradox: After Ten Years, What Has Been Learned?” originally prepared for the White House Conference on Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools and Research, held at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 25-26 May 1999. It draws upon joint work with Ed...