T h s paper specifies a generalizable model of exchange processes and develops a process-stakeholder analysis framework to evaluate alternative market designs. This framework is applied to analyze a number of information technology initiatives in the Dutch flower markets. The Dutch flower auctions are the world's leading centers for trading cut-flowers and potted plants. We undertake a cross-ca...

This paper shows the effects of traders evaluation based computational mechanism design in electronic commerce. The proposes a new user evaluation methods based on multi-criteria based rating system. In the existing trading systems, most of them have user evaluation to help buyers/sellers decision making to trade. However, a user can never know where the potential trading partners did trade suc...

In recent years, the study of trading in electronic markets has received significant amount of attention, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence and electronic commerce. With increasingly sophisticated technologies being applied in analyzing information and making decisions, fully autonomous software agents are expected to take up significant roles in many important fields. This t...

In the digital economy of information and communication technology, several organizations from various industries are jumping onto the bandwagon of offering consumer-oriented electronic commerce applications. In Singapore, Internet Stock Trading has been at the forefront of this trend since 1998. However, to-date, the penetration rate of online trading remains low. As such, this paper attempts ...

The exchange of goods and services among software agents requires reliable and fair brokering mechanisms to match trading parties and to mediate among their conflicting interests. Available trading models for electronic marketplaces are fixed price selling, bilateral multi-step negotiations, and various forms of auctioning. These models demand trading parties to evaluate appropriate interest ma...

TradeNet, an electronic data interchange (EDI) system, has been touted as one of the most successful implementations of information technology at a nationwide level. To date, assessments of the benefits arising from TradeNet are anec(total and focus primarily on the benefits accruing to the sponsor, i.e., the government agency. Notably absent is a systematic assessment of TradeNet from the pers...

Current research activities in the area of trading intangible content usually focus on specific legal or technical problems, neglecting the underlying business models and their implications on retail information systems. There is a need for a framework to structure the diverse research efforts. In this paper trading of digital products is positioned within the wider field of electronic commerce...

The Internet is a global and borderless environment, and it will be a challenge having to identify and trust the other party whom one is transacting with. Developing and communicating trustworthiness to one’s business partners is crucial at a time when business opportunities in e-commerce are flourishing. The objective of this study is to examine the role that trust plays and the extent to whic...

In order to support the execution of collaborative business processes, trading partners have to exchange electronic business documents. Since each partner has its own systems and culture, they could use different terms and metadata structures to represent their data, even when referring to the same domain of interest. Then, an appropriate approach for defining the semantics of these documents i...