A growing number of users are interested in improving the utilization of their computing resources through consolidation and aggregation. Consolidation is already common in mainframe environments, where technology to support running multiple applications and even operating systems on the same hardware has been in development since the late 1960’s. Such technology is now becoming an important di...

The electronic marketplace is a virtual trading environment over telecommunications networks, which replicates and can even improve functions of traditional physical trading markets. Based on a previously addressed method of taxonomy-hierarchy search, we propose a mechanism for electronic shopping supports. Instead of searching a fixed product taxonomy hierarchy, given search conditions, the pr...

This paper explores the recent trends of research and development in modern manufacturing systems. Those trends happen to direct the business activities of this sector towards the globalisation of the usual markets and the creation of a new virtual, agile, and extended production environment whose purpose is to ensure fast, responsive, and adaptable reaction to the new market conditions. This p...

in recent years, virtual communities have been significantly popular and almost all of them are targeted for business profitability. in our study, the profitability of these communities for businesses has been analyzed from a commercial perspective. the study considers virtual community as a business model which can have a great impact on consumer purchase decision process. with respect to refe...

This paper examines the relationship between virtual identity and virtual consumption in Second Life. More specifically, we investigate the tendency to link the virtual world to reality through the concept of identity, and explore the role consumption and business endeavors play in this process. Information was obtained from comments posted on four Second Life forums, focusing on the general th...

Even though scholars have placed considerable focus on studying the attitudes and intentions towards using the virtual market (marketspace), there are still few studies that examine the potential effect of the physical market (marketplace) on the virtual market. The physical and virtual markets have some substitution effects; as users utilize the virtual market more frequently, they use the phy...

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Firms are increasingly embedded in networks of relationships with other organizations that are of strategic importance. An organization’s participation in a network may provide access to information, resources, markets, and technologies, or it may lock it in unproductive relationships from which it may be difficult to extricate. Therefore, it is no longer adequate to analyze firms’ conduct and ...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent clearinghouse, an electronic marketplace with computer-mediated negotiation that supported with both data and textual information about the dynamic markets. Most existing electronic market systems support relatively stable markets: traders are not allowed to revise their bids and offers once they are entered to the system. The intelligent clearinghouse a...