Recently, new standards for business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce transactions, to reduce extended record locking, relaxed standard database transaction properties. In this paper, we provide a parallel methodology employing a mobile/intelligent agent framework to alleviate extended record locking, while adhering to standard database transaction properties. Our methodology provides a minimum 30%...

The business models in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce and their effectiveness have been a major topic of research in recent years. Due to the variety of existing models, it seems difficult to find a widely accepted categorization that can be analyzed and assessed. An indepth study that provides a process-based approach to B2B e-commerce is presented and illustrated with examples from ind...

Recent research on distributed Internet based B2B e-commerce has focused on long running distributed transactions and the possibility that this characteristic may lead to extended record locking. New standards developed define the terms and condition necessary for businesses to interact in an electronic contract, such as a Trading Partner Agreement (TPA) and therefore do not require record lock...

With the ongoing process of building business networks in today’s economy, businessto-business integration (B2B Integration) has become a strategic tool for utilizing and optimizing information exchange between business partners. Industry and academia have made remarkable progress in implementing and conceptualizing different kinds of electronic intercompany relationships in the last years. Nev...

In B2B relationships electronic product catalogs and the respective catalog data gain an important meaning as the starting point for procurement decisions. Suppliers have to provide catalog data for their customers and market places in standardized XML formats and defined quality. Contrary to B2C, catalog usage in B2B is characterized by the fact that data of the catalog-creating enterprise is ...

Developments in information technologies in recent years have enabled major advances in electronic commerce and e-commerce is growing at a very fast pace. Although business-toconsumer (B2C) e-commerce seems to be slowdown due to economic conditions, businessto-business (B2B) e-commerce still represents the next generation of business automation. Taking advantage of new technologies, is nowadays...

The explosive growth in the size and use of the World Wide Web as a communication medium has been enthusiastically adopted by the mass market to provide an electronic connection between progressive businesses and millions of customers bringing to light the eBusiness sector. However, the nature of most Web structures is static and complicated, and users often lose sight of the goal of their inqu...

The perception and influence of B2B e-commerce website’s features, such as color, images, translation of content, etc., varies depending on consumer culture. Indeed, these characteristics and their related effects are especially important in the context of cross-border electronic commerce, which involves websites and consumers from different countries and cultures. According to recent research ...

Electronic contracting aims at improving existing business relationship paradigms and at enabling new forms of contractual relationships. To successfully realize these objectives, an integral understanding of the contracting field must be established. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for businessto-business contracting support. The framework provides a complete view over the con...

Electronic marketplaces for B2B electronic commerce serve a great mission of bringing together lots of suppliers and buyers including small and medium enterprises into a world-wide global trade. These companies use different document formats and document sequences in their procurement chain and the marketplaces need to be able to easily plug these schemes in and to translate business informatio...