Eine genauere Betrachtung der Electronic Commerce-Szenerie ergibt ein reichlich widersprüchliches Bild: Einerseits reißt die Serie von Erfolgsmeldungen eindrucksvoller Beispiele umsatzstarker Unternehmen mit Web-Präsenz nicht ab, andererseits bewahrheiten sich viele euphorische Voraussagen zum Erfolg von Electronic Commerce-Aktivitäten für Unternehmen nicht einmal annähernd. Verlustmeldungen be...

This paper presents electronic cash as a catalyst to electronic commerce. Electronic Cash facilitates business transactions not only between customers and merchants, but also between customer to customer transactions. This paper discusses a survey regarding electronic cash that was done in University of Puerto Rico in 2004. This survey analyses what the students think about electronic cash as a...

Electronic commerce (e-Commerce) involves a complex set of business workflows regarding the buying and selling of products or services by means of electronic systems such as the Internet. e-Commerce applications can be supported, amongst other alternatives, by content management systems (CMS) through specific

As the second generation of electronic commerce, the framework of agent based commerce is proposed. Since the communication messages and solution methods of agents are significantly influenced by the contract type, we have defined the grammar of contracts first. By using this generalized contract grammar, we can express new creative contract types as well as the traditional ones like bids and a...

Presently, Internet-based electronic commerce systems are developed through in-house programming and are plagued with uneven quality, low productivity, and little reusability. Furthermore, low interoperability between those systems is also a major obstacle to the deployment of open and flexible electronic markets. We investigate the concept of electronic commerce management systems (ECMS), whic...