Despite the high level of interest in the role of governments in building national information infrastructure (NII) as a source of competitive advantage, it is still not clear how major information technology initiatives can help leverage national economies into the global marketplace. In light of the recent rollout of one of the world's largest electronic commerce initiatives, we examine the r...

Business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) has become an increasingly important initiative among organisations. The factors affecting the adoption decisions have been well-documented but there is a paucity of empirical studies that examine the adoption of e-commerce in developing economies in the Arab world. The aim of our study is to provide insights into the salient e-commerc...

The major goal of this work is to identify the key factors that affect e-commerce adoption in Algeria from macro perspective. In order to do so, four main infrastructures extracted from literature review have been used to determine the nature of the barriers that have prevented e-commerce from taking off as expected and to explain why Algeria lags behind other countries with similar economic co...

Trading in electronic markets is a topic of increasing interest within the artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic commerce research communities. As Internet marketplaces proliferate, programs that monitor and bid in these markets automatically—what we call “trading agents”—will play a significant role. Various AI research communities have held competitions to compare different approaches t...

Though many companies are still just beginning to grasp the potential uses and impacts of the Web and e-commerce, advances in technologies and their application continue. These advances often present various managerial and technological issues for individuals, companies, governments, and other entities. One significant area of technological advancement is the development of mobile e-commerce, w...

In this paper, we describe a scenario for a distributed marketplace on the Web where resource discovery agents find out about resources that may want to join the marketplace and electronic commerce is realized through buying agents representing the customers and the selling agents representing the resources like electronic catalogs. We propose a possible architecture which is based on the emerg...

Advances in Internet and network technology and the rapidly growing number of mobile personal devices result in the fast growth of Mobile E-Commerce, M-Commerce. In this paper we view M-Commerce as activity of conducting E-commerce transactions using mobile terminals over a wireless network. A special case of M-commerce are Location Based Services (LBS) where often the actual position of the te...

An important ingredient in agent-mediated Electronic Commerce is the presence of intelligent mediating agents that assist Electronic Commerce participants (e.g., individual users, other agents, organisations). These mediating agents are in principle autonomous agents that will interact with their environments (e.g. other agents and web-servers) on behalf of participants who have delegated tasks...

By the introduction of NTT DoCoMo’s ”i -mode”, mobile Internet access infrastructure has been widely spread in Japan, and also the increase of rich contents constructed the basis of mobile commerce. In the 3G environment, DoCoMo is planning to support loading various applications in the mobile phone by utilizing memory devices such as IC chip, thus enabling mobile commerce service in both virtu...