E-commerce is an emerging technology. Impact of this new technology is getting clearer with time and results are tangible to the user community. In this paper we have tried to focus some of its issues like paradigms, infrastructure integration, and security, which is considered to be the most important issue in E-Commerce. At first we have elaborated the paradigms of E-Commerce (Business-to-Bus...

Using agent technology to support E-Commerce automation is a promising direction. However, the previous “proof-of-concept” efforts do not scale well in E-Commerce automation. An essential reason is that the conventional agent infrastructures are primarily designed for intra-enterprise, group-based agent cooperation, but most E-Commerce applications are based on inter-enterprise business partner...

O ral chemotherapy and hormonal therapies have been available for decades and include many familiar agents such as cyclophosphamide, melphalan, and tamoxifen. The past decade has witnessed an expansion of oral anticancer drugs, including cytotoxic agents, small-molecule inhibitors, and agents targeted at receptors that regulate cellular differentiation, growth, and survival. Since 2000, more th...

A side effect to our increasingly information-driven economy and lifestyle is the annoyance and headaches of information overload. Everywhere we go, we are bombarded by email, spam, online advertisements, beepers beeping, cell phones ringing, and incoming SMS messages. The wealth of information available at our fingertips online is both a blessing and a curse in disguise. This paper presents th...

coordination, the systems on top of this can be information processing types of information systems. The information technology infrastructure does not only favour textile and apparel industry. The infrastructure is also adopted by other industrial applications in Hong Kong, such as service industry, transportation logistics, and CAD/CAPP/CAM. Most of these applications cover all of the informa...

AbSTRACT With the rapid growth in mobile commerce (m-commerce) applications, the need for providing suitable infrastructure to support these applications has become critical. Secure multicast is a key element of this infrastructure, in particular, to support group m-commerce applications such as mobile auctions, product recommendation systems , and financial services. Despite considerable atten...

Market research suggests that organisations, in general, have a differentiation strategy when approaching Electronic Commerce. Thus, in order to be useful, agent technology must take into account this market characteristic. When extending its application to the negotiation stage of the shopping experience, one should consider a multi-issue approach, from which both buyers and sellers can profit...

Agent-based economy or agent-based electronic commerce is the term for describing one of possible next steps of electronic commerce. The systematic understanding of the agent-based economy is important for researchers to develop practical intelligent agent systems, and for current electronic commerce industries to cope with the challenges of the intelligent agents. With these purposes, we condu...

This paper states how software agents will influence the present marketing prototype in interactive media. It focuses on the importance of these in E-Commerce. E-Commerce is a platform for the online activities of commerce, increase in the activities of trade in cyberspace increases the business opportunities over internet. Software agents are the useful tools to help individuals to undertake t...