China is a large agricultural country, yet the development environment of E-business in China is not mature. E-Commerce of agricultural products is a revolutionary change of traditional agricultural economy. This paper focuses on agricultural products’ electronic commerce in China. Firstly, the paper describes the current situation of electronic commerce. Afterwards, the paper uses Fuzzy Analyt...

What makes small IT companies’ web development practices for e-commerce successful is essential for small IT companies. Usually they do not have the resources to initiate research on such issues alone. The authors report on their work in progress towards the design of a system for promoting improved understanding of the Critical Success Factors for web development that supports the accumulation...

In this talk we present the software development best practices that the Netherlands eScience Center has developed during the 90+ projects it has participated in, in the 5 years of its existence.

The internet has emerged as a key channel for both firms and governments. E-government programmes are diverse, and difficult to assess and compare with e-business initiatives. There is therefore a need for a framework to allow for assessment and comparison of e-government and e-business initiatives. This paper develops a framework (applicable to both business and governments) that allows evalua...

The internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically changed how citizens and business interact with their government. Almost all the government website supply the local tourism information since the tourism is becoming increasingly important for local economic development. This paper is an attempt to compare the current development of the e-g...

With merchant information increasing rapidly, customers have to spend a lot of time and energies to search for goods they need, as a result, they maybe find nothing. If merchant can respond customer’s requirements agilely when the event defined by customer appears, blindness of customer can be avoided, merchant wins business opportunities too. Protocol is the technology fundament for e-commerce...

background: para-nonylphenol (p-np) is one of the environmental pollutants which cause reproductive system disorders. objective: the effects of vitamin e on ovary structure during its development in rats treated with p-np. materials and methods: 32 wistar female rats after mating were divided into 4 groups; control vitamin e (100mg/kg/day) p-np (250mg/kg/day) and p-np + vitamin e. the rats were...

The first decade of the e-commerce era saw an increase in activity in the software development industries as new firms were created and existing firms made acquisitions. Many firms pursued a growth strategy and this growth required capital that was often obtained through an initial public offering (IPO) of equity. Software firm cost structures are very different from traditional physical goods ...

Many recent development environments support the visual construction of applications. Some of them use the term component to explain the composition process. In this paper, the assembly editor of the component development environment HotAgent is presented to show a possible solution to visually construct agents for electronic commerce. The requirements of the composition process are described a...

This study investigates the relationship between a micro-enterprise wishing to develop an e-commerce capability, and the Web developer they have chosen to deliver that function. The major challenge of this relationship is how they can work together in achieving good website and business outcomes. Employing a multiple case study approach and thematic analysis, interviews were held with micro ent...