Rapid commercialization of the Internet and development of the National Information Infrastructure are likely to change the nature of retailing and commerce in profound ways. These changes pose both challenges and opportunites for AI, such as how to design intelligent assistants that help humans cope with the increasing complexities of electronic commerce. In this paper, we present the rst step...

Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches, enhanced navigation and browsing, interoperable heterogeneous information systems, supplier enablement, configuration management, and transaction discovery. Applications such as information and service discovery and...

The Magnet system meets many of the challenges of modeling decision making for customer agents in automated contract negotiation. B usiness-to-business e-commerce is expanding rapidly, letting manufacturers both broaden their customer base and increase their pool of potential suppliers. However, negotiating supplier contracts for the multiple components that often make up a single product is a ...

In the current rocket-speed growing E-commerce market, certain infrastructure, which enables users to exchange information and money securely over the Internet, is essential. Unfortunately, Internet is mere a cloud of connections of nodes. There is no organization to operate and manage. So the Internet itself is not responsible for any malicious frauds and attacks, and failures caused by reliab...

|There has been a tremendous growth in wireless technology in the last decade. This advancement has changed how people do business in Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) environment. For creating a more secure and exible m-commerce infrastructure so as to meet the new demands, we need to leverage new technologies like 3G/UMTS, Bluetooth, EDGE and at the same time utilize the older ones like WAP, GSM, ...

The fast-growing information and communication technologies have shifted the contemporary commerce in both its information and market spaces. Businesses demand a new generation of agile and adaptive commerce systems. Towards this end, software agents, a type of autonomous artifacts, have been viewed as a promising solution. They have been taking an increasingly important part in facilitating e-...

Agent technology is often claimed to be the most natural approach for automating e-commerce business processes. Despite these claims, up till now, the most successful e-commerce systems are still based on humans to make the most important decisions in various stages of an e-commerce transaction. Consequently, it is difficult to find successful actually implemented and working largescale agent-b...

This article explains the need for quality educational technology in our schools, and notes the contributions of existing technology in improving education. It describes the potential that telecommunications network technology holds for revitalizing American education. It outlines the major federal programs that provide policy guidance and funding assistance for educational institutions to acce...

Compared to business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is larger, growing faster and has less unequal geographical distribution globally. In this paper, we examine the current stage of B2B e-commerce development across four global regions and propose a model to explain the magnitude and global distribution of B2B e-commerce activities. Our analysis indicates th...

Based on the speci c characteristics and requirements for an adequate electronic commerce system support, this article gives an overview of the respective distributed systems technologies which are available for open and heterogeneous electronic commerce applications. Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as (transactionally secure) remote procedure calls and remote database acce...