This paper presents the issues related to the different kinds of Broker Agents for electronic commerce. The specificity of electronic commerce of multimedia products and services is considered, proposing a classification of this kind of systems based on different characteristics and levels of complexity. The classification is also based on previous models (functional and architectural) for elec...

Аннотация: Статья о новой форме торговли в сети Интернет. Преимущества дропшиппинга открывают для российских производителей и предпринимателей новые горизонты в международной торговле и маркетинге. Автор рассматривает особенности развития и роль дропшиппинга в электронной коммерции нового тысячелетия. Ключевые слова: дропшиппинг, электронная коммерция, интернет-маркетинг, электронная торговля. ...

We propose a method, called PREDIQT, for model based prediction of impact of architecture design changes on system quality. PREDIQT supports simultaneous analysis of several quality attributes and their trade-offs. This paper argues for the feasibility of the PREDIQT method based on a comprehensive industrial case study targeting a system for managing validation of electronic certificates and s...

1 electronic markets is expected to grow rap1 point of view by Davis and Holt (1993), Hendricks and Por te r (1988) , a n d Rothkopf and Harstad (1994). More recently, the flower auction markets were investigated in more detail. Ajit Kambil and Eric van Heck (1996) specified a generalizable model of exchange processes and developed a process-stakeholder analysis framework to evaluate alternativ...

Indirect network e ects exist when the utility of consumers is increasing in the variety of complementary products available for use with an electronic hardware device. In this paper, we examine how trade liberalization a ects production structure in the presence of indirect network e ects. For these purposes we construct a simple twocountry model of trade with incompatible country-speci c hard...

The health care sector is among the most rapidly growing sectors in the world economy. It is estimated to generate US$ 3 trillion per year in countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development alone and is expected to rise to US$ 4 trillion by 2005 (1, 2). The globalization of health services is reflected in the growing cross-border delivery of health services, through move...

The impact of web-based electronic commerce on the process of disintermediation and re-intermediation has been extensively studied. Two major limitations of the existing work are the focus on a single economic measure (i.e., transaction cost minimization) and the examination of channel-structure decisions from only a single perspective (the seller’s). This paper introduces transactional value t...

This paper analyzes the clustering of trades on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) with respect to the trade direction variable. The ASX is a limit order market operating an electronic limit order book. The order book consists of buy limit orders (bids) and sell limit orders (asks). A trade takes place if a new order arrives which matches an existing order in the limit order book. If the match...

Electronic commerce refers to all commercial transactions based on the electronic processing and transmission of data, including text, sound and images. This involves transactions over the internet, plus electronic funds transfers and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Onone level, electronic commercebegan in themid-1800s,when thefirst contract was entered into using the telegraph or telephone....