We analyze one of the most important phenomena of emerging B2B markets, their impact in promoting changes in contracting for the same goods traded on the B2B exchange. This trend is especially important in capital-intensive industries, where improvements in ne-tuning the coordination of supply and demand carry large economic bene ts. The spot market information conveyed through B2B transactions...

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...

The use of information technology in business-to-business transactions (commonly referred to as B2B ECommerce) has gained a lot of attention throughout the last years. Even though the euphoria about the possibilities of using electronic media has subsided, IT has subtly altered the way companies do transactions. B2B E-Commerce can take many different forms (EDI, E-Shops, etc.). In this research...

the telecommunications industry plays an important role in providing ICT services to a wide range of customers. In addition to individual customers, corporate customers also are user of these services and have an important role to make return on investment for telecom companies (Telcos). Therefore, this group of customers should not be ignored by any reason. This is where the Telecom Companies ...

The use of Semantic Web Service (SWS) technologies have been suggested to enable more dynamic B2B integration of heterogeneous systems and partners. We present our approach to accomplish dynamic B2B integrations based on the WSMX SWS environment. We particularly show howWSMX can be made to support the RosettaNet e-business framework and how it can add dynamics to B2B interactions by automating ...

B2B is a strong multidisciplinary research field with many constituent disciplines and technologies. This paper deals with the B2B interoperability in the sense of open component and framework standards. In particular, underlying network technologies, protocols, the components and concepts of Web intelligence, and the frameworks for B2B interoperability are described. All technologies described...

With the inception of the Internet, huge opportunities have arisen for intelligent automation of business-based transactions. Intelligent agent architectures have gained acceptance in implementing this domain and supporting electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents in electronic commerce has mostly been directed toward applications that support transactions b...