Middleware Components for E-commerce Infrastructure: An Analytical Review

Infrastructure for E-commerce

WISE: An Infrastructure for E-Commerce

Electronic Commerce over the Internet is one of the most rapidly growing areas in todays business. However, considering the most important phase of Electronic Commerce, the payment, it has to be noted that in most currently exploited approaches, support for at least one of the participants is limited. From a general point of view, a couple of requirements for correct payment interactions exist,...

A Distributed OLAP Infrastructure for E-Commerce

Warehousing and mining sales transaction data to generate summary information, customer profiles, and business rules has become increasingly important in ecommerce. Such summary information and rules have to be extracted from very large collections of transaction data gathered at many distributed sites. This is challenging data mining, both in terms of the magnitude of data involved, and the ne...

An Infrastructure for Adaptable Middleware

Today’s software systems have to deal with an increasing diversity and complexity of execution environments. Next generation applications will have to deal with the unknown, with execution conditions which can not be predicted at the time they are written: they must be adaptable. In this paper, we present our current answer to this problem, in the form of an infrastructure for adaptable middlew...

FIDES – A Middleware E-Commerce Security Solution

This paper reports on the on-going Fair Integrated Data Exchange Services (FIDES) project aimed at developing a security middleware solution to support e-commerce transactions and the provision of the important fair exchange and nonrepudiation security services. Fair exchange ensures that either both business parties participating in a transaction receive the exchanged valuable items or neither...