In this paper, we provide a generic model to characterize transactional behavior in an e-commerce environment which can be applied to Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce sites, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) ecommerce sites, and other (e.g., simple browsing) type of web-sites. The ideas presented in this paper have been derived based upon detailed examination of the E-commerce server architecture...

XING, JIE. Commitment-Based Interoperation for E-Commerce. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh.) Successful e-commerce presupposes techniques by which autonomous trading entities can interoperate. Although much progress has been made on data exchange and payment protocols, interoperation in the face of autonomy is still inadequately understood. Current techniques, designed for closed ...

Mobile commerce is enabling the development of additional revenue streams for organizations through the delivery of chargeable mobile services. According to the European Information Technology Observatory, the total amount of revenue generated by mobile commerce was reported to be less than £9 million in the United Kingdom in 2001. By 2005 this had, at least, doubled and more recent industry fo...

In the literature on mobile commerce service adoption, aggregate diffusion issues or technology issues are usually focused. However, a comparison of the slow adoption of WAP services in Europe with the successful adoption of comparable I-mode services in Japan and technologically simple SMS-based services in Scandinavia, suggests that aggregate and technology-based models are insufficient to ex...

This paper evaluates recently developed novel and comprehensive reputation metric designed for the distributed multi-agent reputation system for the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce applications. To do that an agent-based simulation framework was implemented which models different types of behaviours in the marketplace. The trustworthiness of different types of providers is investigated to...

In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for IJCA Journal Submission. Impulsive stresses posed by unanticipated drifts of requests from users on Internet have made it exceptionally perplexing for E-Commerce to offer projected enactment of the architecture. In order to provide stable service, it is important for electronic commerce architecture to recognize the performances in terms ...

In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for IJCA Journal Submission. Impulsive stresses posed by unanticipated drifts of requests from users on Internet have made it exceptionally perplexing for E-Commerce to offer projected enactment of the architecture. In order to provide stable service, it is important for electronic commerce architecture to recognize the performances in terms ...

Electronic commerce has been changing the operation models of firms to adjust the ever more competitive environment in the the commercial field, and the new ones of cooperation amonge firms have been formed by it. In the globalized electronic commerce, the old and traditional models of supply chain management have fade away by being failed to fill the needs in the electronic commerce, and the n...

Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business activities, requirements for e-commerce applications have to be created from scratch rather than elicited. Second, design decisions about e-business models and the associated information systems architecture cannot be s...

The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has injected new vitality and productivity to e-commerce. But it also brought the lag problem of cross-border logistics and distribution system. Under current models of logistics and distribution, the order cycle is too long to be efficient which coexist with high cost, uncontrollable risks and complicated procedure. These factors have hindered t...