Internet Banking is performed in an insecure environment, that is, both the PC and the web browser may have viruses and spyware. Therefore the sensitive data such as client passwords and financial transactions can be eavesdropped and modified. This paper presents two smart card based solutions for Internet Banking. Unlike most of earlier approaches which handles all the sensitive data using the...

Electronic business and agents are among the most important and exciting areas of research and development in information and communication technology, with considerable potential impact and opportunities for the Maritime sector. This paper proposes the design of a Multi-Agent system for Internet Virtual Chartering Markets (MAVCM). The MAVCM system applies for business-to-business transactions ...

Internet measurements show that the size distribution of Web-based transactions is usually very skewed; a few large requests constitute most of the total traÆc. Motivated by the advantages of scheduling algorithms which favor short jobs, we propose to perform di erentiated control over Web-based transactions to give preferential service to short web requests. The control is realized through ser...

The concept of atomic transactions has played a cornerstone role in creating today's enterprise application environments by providing guaranteed consistent outcomes in complex multi-party business operations. While numerous multi-party business applications involve various patterns based on atomic transactions, it was not until recently the term "business transactions" accumulated any concrete ...

Web Services offer a widespread standard for making services available on the Internet. Of particular interest is the possibility of composing existing distributed services to create new complex ones. Existing research has already studied long running transactions within a formal context. In this other research, compensations are just partly compositional: a transaction’s failure triggers the c...

With the advance of internet technologies in recent years, online shopping is becoming a popular trend to make purchases compared to the traditional ways. There are many excellent benefits to both the consumers and business conducting online businesses. However, it could also cause great damage to the business due to the increasing number of fraudulent online transactions. In order to improve t...

Mostly we use password for Remote Authentication but Smart Cardbased scheme is very promising and practical solution to remote authentication. Over the past several years, Smart Cards have achieved a growing acceptance as a powerful tool for Security, Identification and Authorization. Smart Cards have been widely used as simple token hardware in authentication process. As the e-business is grow...

Data sent over the Internet is not that secure at all if it is not encrypted. When sending an email, the email can be observed from the source computer, all the way to its destination. The same applies when browsing web pages, chatting, and authenticating accounts through passwords; all these can be intercepted. Consequently, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and all other hops across the Inter...

Trust is a major issue in Internet transactions. This paper presents a model of trust on the Internet that focuses on three dimensions of trust. It investigates the perceived value a consumer places on these dimensions when set in the context of different product categories, price discounts and immediacy of purchase. It is argued that the more willing an Internet merchant is to heed these three...

The spread of the Internet and development of e-commerce technology have redefined commercial transactions, and a succession of attempts to embody actual transactions has proliferated in the e-commerce environment. Several studies have been continuously attempted to embody the function of negotiations in the e-commerce environment, since negotiations have been performed in most transactions exc...