Electronic commerce: Overview of risk disturbing

Transaction risk in electronic commerce

Electronic commerce business models can add value by elimination of control and risk-bearing borne by channel intermediaries. But such markets may be less robust encouraging risky behavior. We explore a model of transaction risk in the migration from broker-mediated to electronic markets. The research finds that: (1) the risk of falsely accepting ‘bad’ orders is the critical risk measure for op...

A Risk Minimisation Framework for Electronic Commerce

Various kinds of digital commerce depend on digital signatures, which are based on public-key cryptography and one-way hash functions. However, one-way hash functions have properties, which can be exploited to subvert security service. A framework in this paper gives a way to minimise such risks with paying attention to proper structuring (and consequently coding) of electronic documents and th...

S ftware Agents in Electronic Commerce: An Overview

The explosive growth of Internet-based electronic commerce has increased the consumer’s choices of goods and merchants. To find a suitable good and merchant with acceptable sales terms is a very tedious task. Agent technologies promise to simplify these tasks for consumers. This chapter presents an overview of electronic commerce systems based on software agent technology. A survey of current e...

Electronic Commerce: Who Carries the Risk of Fraud?

Virtual Enterprises Risk Management DSS under Electronic Commerce

Risk management is important to the development of enterprise as well as social-economic prosperity. Virtual enterprise is the potential mode of future enterprise under electronic commerce environment and the risk management for it is a popular research area recently. Due to the complexity of its risk management a decision support system (DSS) with 3-bases-1-cell structure was designed. By coor...