E-services are deeds, processes and performances that are exchanged commercially and provisioned via the Internet. Such e-services rely on web-service technology as an implementation platform. One of the key problems in developing innovative e-services is to create a shared understanding of the e-service at hand, and to analyze whether the e-service is commercially viable and technically feasib...

Web-based electronic service (e-service) end-user adoption and implementation requires an assessment of consumer contextual factors. This paper investigates factors which affect end-user experience and perception, motivation, support, control, and usage frequency in the online/offline user task environment and its affect on web-based e-service adoption and implementation. Understanding end-user...

Web-based e-service end-user adoption and implementation requires an understanding of consumer contextual factors. This paper examines specific factors which affect end-user experience and perception, motivation, support, control, and usage frequency in the online/offline user task environment and its affect on web-based e-service adoption and implementation. Understanding end-user’s continuous...

Web services composition is the ability to integrate existing services to have value added services. Workflow-based services composition is one of the approaches proposed. eFlow is one of the Workflow-based service composition approaches. The approach is strong in providing a platform for adaptive and dynamic web services composition. However, it neglects the validation of the Quality of Servic...

Nowadays, Business-to-Business (B2B) has become one the most important forms for e-commerce implementations that allows organizations (both partners and competitors) to cooperate in terms of building virtual corporations to satisfy customer and market needs. Almost all B2B applications have special requirements regarding to ability to be changed dynamically and flexibly due to market ever-chang...

Governments are continually looking to save costs in providing services especially with the economic crunch. Studies have shown that there is some form of reluctance to transact with governments over the internet even when it is cost saving and efficient. This is especially true where no policies mandating the utilization of e-government transactional web services (EgovTWS) exist and situations...

Governments worldwide are using funding initiatives to encourage small businesses to adopt e-commerce technology. In Australia both State and Federal Governments have encouraged e-commerce uptake through the funding of Internet portal developments that have a specific community or business focus. The success of such portals, as with many Web developments, has been mixed and there is little evid...

As electronic commerce grows, an important socio-economic side effect will be increased competition with the traditional businesses in any given local community. Our research suggests that local merchants typically go online in order to better access distant markets, but are often unprepared to cater to remote customers and hence do not fare well. In this paper, we suggest that it is important ...

In this paper we propose a foundational vision of e-Services, in which we distinguish between the external behavior of an e-Service as seen by clients, and the internal behavior as seen by a deployed application running the e-Service. Such behaviors are formally expressed as execution trees describing the interactions of the e-Service with its client and with other e-Services. Using these notio...

The emerging online Business-to-Business (Liu, Sia and Wei) marketplace in China, with major websites such as Alibaba.com and ECVV.com, has presented a huge opportunity for Small-and-Medium Enterprises (Arend) to reach out to an extensive pool of potential corporate customers. This would not have been possible through conventional strategies such as trade fairs and road shows. Despite the avail...