This paper defines the concept of regional e-commerce by analyzing the literature. According to the definition, this paper extracted the core indicators of regional e-commerce development, and used the principal component analysis to evaluate the development level of regional e-commerce. Finally, this paper analyzes the impact factors of regional e-commerce development from qualitative and quan...

This paper introduces a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) system over the Internet. A Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 97-based user interface is developed to permit users to navigate around the virtual world. Voice-enabled interactive agents provide a more natural interface to help users interact with each other and with the virtual world. Real-time interactions between the entit...

E lectronic commerce continues to see phenomenal growth, but so far most e-commerce development involves wired infrastructures. We believe emerging wireless and mobile networks will provide new avenues for growth, creating new opportunities in mobile commerce. The exponential growth of wireless and mobile networks has brought vast changes in mobile devices, middleware development, standards and...

From 1999, China started to the project of “Development of Western Region of China” and many preferential policies were issued by the central government. However, after almost 5 years, compared with eastern region, the development of infrastructure is still relatively lower. As to the development of E-commerce, the most typical phenomenon is unbalance which means that the eastern region is much...

In order for mobile agents to be accepted as a basic technology for enabling electronic commerce, proper security mechanisms must be developed. Hosts must be protected from malicious agents, agents must be protected from other agents and also agents must be protected from malicious hosts. For solving the first three problems, existing technology from operating systems and distributed systems re...

The emergence of mobile devices and wireless networks has created a new path in the field of e-commerce: “mcommerce”. Significant research is needed, in the field of service discovery, to support m-commerce applications. Various new applications, that would use services available to a mobile device from both the fixed network backbone and peer mobile devices in its proximity, are being develope...

The success story of eBay has shown the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network bandwidth, server load, availability, etc.). In this paper we argue that C2C e-commerce is an application domain that maps naturally onto the emerging field of P2P systems simply by its underlying interaction model of ...

Intelligent agents have been applied to electronic commerce, promising a revolution in the way we conduct business, whether business-to-business, business-to-customer or customer-to-customer. This article gives a brief review of agent technologies involved in buying and selling, followed by lists of Internet e-commerce agents. Several agent-mediated electronic commerce systems are analysed in t...