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 th...

Consulting groups are predicting that the future of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) exchanges will generate exponentially increasing revenues. However, the economic uncertainties in the market and technological innovations, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and e-Speak from Hewlett Packard, may significantly alter the outlook for the current exchanges. In this study,...

Trust is one of the most important factors that influence the successful application of network service environments, such as e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and online social networks. Computation models associated with trust and reputation have been paid special attention in both computer societies and service science in recent years. In this paper, a dynamical computation model of repu...

The scope of this research is to develop and test a model for evaluating B2C e-commerce websites quantitatively. Consequently, this study seeks to investigate the relationship between the website interface of B2C e-commerce and virtual customer behavior, emphasizing the purchasing attitude and intention. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to research which features of a virtual store ef...

Negative impressions that arise during a first interaction with a Business-to-Customer web page often have the unpleasant side effect to destroy a firm s efforts in achieving B2C electronic commerce on the WWW. This paper verifies the relation between audience impressions and the visual style of a B2C web page. In comparison to previous work, the experimental procedure was greatly improved. It ...

Little research has been done on the e-business strategies of Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Smaller firms have come under increasing pressure to implement such applications but have limited resources and often lack necessary understanding to make appropriate choices. In an effort to find an approach to aid in making effective choices, we collected data from 400+ SMEs and used Import...