Electronic commerce is one of the most important application areas of mobile agent technology. A secure mobile agent system (SMAS) model is established for e-commerce environment. The SMAS consists of mobile agents and mobile agent server. A security shell module in the mobile agent architecture is responsible for mobile agent protection. Surveillance agent running in the agent server provides ...

Mobile agents are an important technology in e-commerce systems and offer new possibilities for the e-commerce applications. This paper examines some mobile agent integrity protocols and proposes a new protecting protocol of mobile agent integrity. It can defend most known attacks, provides encryption transmission and route secrecy of mobile agents.

M-commerce as a special form of e-commerce has grown rapidly both in developed and developing countries. New advancements in its underlying technology have increased the functionality of m-commerce. However, they also present potential security risks. Security issues have been a top concern for m-commerce management. In spite of the benefits m-commerce could bring, new security and privacy risk...

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...

Mobile commerce (M-commerce) is an attractive research area due to its relative novelty, rapid growth, and great potential in business applications. Over the last decade, various M-commerce applications have been geared to target mobile users and achieved great success. However, most M-commerce applications are developed by different retailers for special purposes and thus lack fully automated ...

Trust and privacy have been widely studied as key issues and success factors for e-commerce. The advent of m-commerce calls for revisiting these concepts and re-examining their antecedents in the mobile context. This paper attempts a comparative approach to the issues of trust and privacy in ecommerce and m-commerce. It investigates how trust and privacy are differentiated with the shift from t...

Mobile commerce (M-commerce) has been acknowledged as one of the most representative transaction types driving e-commerce worldwide; however, the potential security threats that keep consumers from M-commerce still confound the M-commerce industry. This research attempts to explore two questions: What are the dimensions of transaction trust that may significantly affect consumers' intentions to...

Recent advances in Internet and e-commerce have led industry to reengineer their organizational structures and value chains. One of the most prominent trends in this change is to conduct work and operation in the distributed or virtual environments. A new kind of business model, termed as value-net, is emerging. In this paper, the business and system mode from the value-net system is studied an...

This paper explores the features of mobile markets and how they differ from Internet markets. 1 M-Commerce – Definitions Even though m-commerce is a new phenomena, there are already many different definitions for the main terms related to this research area in the literature. In order to avoid misunderstandings the most important terms related to mobile technologies will be explained in this se...

The paper attempts to survey the existing research and development efforts involving the use of mobile agents and intelligent agents for advanced e-commerce solutions. In particular it aims at providing a representative view of the current research trends in developing intelligent and mobile agentmediated e-commerce including location-aware, mobile and networked comparison-shopping, auction bid...