Current Web-based electronic commerce systems are lacking in efficient electronic brokerage. Over the past few years significant research has been done in the area of electronic commerce, based on distributed object technology. Distributed object systems provide a key to building interoperable applications that can execute on a range of platforms. However, this new generation of electronic comm...

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agentmediated electronic commerce systems by describing their roles in the context of a Consumer Buying Behavior (CBB) model. The CBB model we present augments traditional marketing models with concepts from Software Agents research to a...

Copyright is used to protect the rights of the consumers and the creators of the Intellectual Property (IP). The ease of creation, modification, distribution, compatibility and above all, a large market opportunity drive the creator and the consumer to move towards digitization to create and use their IP in digital form called Digital Intellectual Property (DIP). In India the existing copyright...

Electronic commerce on the Internet receives much attention now. The workflow management is regarded as an effective mechanism for managing those business processes behind the electronic commerce. But today’s workflow management model has many drawbacks in this field. This paper gives a novel workflow management model based on mobile agents for Internet electronic commerce. And its advantages a...

What properties of money are important for electronic commerce? We argue that both transactional and privacy properties distinguish electronic commerce systems. We provide a quick overview of the history of money. We then consider privacy provided by different forms of money, and socially desirable disclosure of information as specified by legal reporting requirements. We classify electronic an...

National governments have a legitimate rôle to play in the development of national strategies to support electronic commerce. It is not always clear, however, what any electronic commerce legislation should incorporate or how regulation of electronic commerce should be implemented. This paper explores the strategic issues that underlie national electronic commerce strategies by following the pa...

over the recent years, rapid development of information technology (it) and electronic commerce (e-commerce) has dramatically affected world trade and the way business is conducted. also the benefits of using e-commerce and other internet-based technologies have been well recognized through extensive surveys pointing the dominant role of it in different industries. however, implementation of an...

As industrial processes have changed with the advent of e-commerce, banking industry, in turn, has changed. Implementation of electronic banking in any country requires different infrastructures including its material and human resources that the growth of technology and innovation in banks on the one hand, have increased the speed and quality of operations and services, and on the other hand, ...

Electronic commerce is a driving force for IT. Mobile agents provit from this development, and offer substantial advantages for certain electronic commerce applications in return. Yet, a number of criteria should be applied to electronic commerce applications to assess which areas are best suited for mobile agents. A major requirement to build confidence in mobile agent technology is the availa...