The paper explores the concepts of social commerce, the behavior of consumers in social commerce, business models and revenues models of social commerce. We use the Facebook social network commerce as an example to explore the social commerce concept models, classifications of social commerce, revenue model and limitation of social commerce. The social commerce is still in infant stage, there a...

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...

It is known that the collection of the specific needs of mobile users and location management in an electronic commerce recommendation system are important indicators used to evaluate user satisfaction and system execution efficiency. In order to improve the low accuracy of recommendation systems and ensure real-time location management, we proposed cooperative embedded data collection and cont...

This paper presents the issues related to the implementation of electronic commerce of services. To illustrate the main features of electronic commerce of services, we have selected legal and administrative services. We describe in the paper the actors who take part in these services, the system architecture and the workflow that defines the interactions and interchange of information among act...

Electronic commerce has been introduced to the business community at a very fast pace. The Internet’s ease of use in particular resulted to a rapid growth of electronic transactions in a spontaneous manner. Governments worldwide are anxious to control this new means and have to balance between international cooperation and care for specific national needs. In this paper we examine the role of g...

Security for electronic commerce is urgently required, but it must be built in an orderly and extendible way that provides for the security services needed today and in the future. The SEMPER project (Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe), partially funded by the European Commission, aims to provide the first open and comprehensive set of security solutions for electronic commerce. This pap...

The explosive growth of Internet-based electronic commerce has increased the consumer’s choices of goods and merchants. To find a suitable good and merchant with acceptable sales terms is a very tedious task. Agent technologies promise to simplify these tasks for consumers. This chapter presents an overview of electronic commerce systems based on software agent technology. A survey of current e...

Business to consumer electronic commerce will need better tools, beyond browsers and gadgets, for the user to take full advantage of the opportunities of the electronic marketplace. On the other side, business needs to rethink their positioning, and to deal with this new customer using new methods and tools. We present in this paper a tool for navigating large information spaces, such as the We...

E lectronic commerce (EC) has many possible definitions [1, 4, 6]; we define it as the use of electronic systems in the exchange of goods/services/information. There are two major divisions of EC on the Internet: consumer-oriented electronic commerce (CEC) and business-to-business oriented electronic commerce (BEC). Of the two, BEC is expected to grow more rapidly—from $114 billion in 1999 to $...

The revolutionary development of network technologies launched electronic commerce as a global phenomenon. Consequently, the policy issues that arise from its use create new responsibilities for policy makers worldwide. Apart from the technical (e.g., fast and reliable networks) and regulatory (e.g., legal frameworks and standardization) challenges that need to be tackled, there are a number of...