To support open and spontaneous electronic commerce, more interoperable electronic commerce systems are needed. This requires more standardized software development methodologies and tools in place of proprietary programming as currently done in most corporations. Towards this end, we advocate the conception of electronic commerce management systems (ECMS). In this paper, we elucidate the chara...

Using internet to operate business has become very important for traditional manufacturing enterprises and retailers. These enterprises are facing great risk when entering e-commerce due to lack of experiences and large volume of initial IT investment. This study analyzed the Commerce as a Service (CaaS) solution which can perfectly solve these problems. The solution is based on leading e-comme...

Editor's note Sadly, Dr3John Dawson died on the 20th ofDecember 1990. For manyyears Dr Dawson had extensive interest and involvement, via his position at the Bn'tish Medical Association, with a number ofnational and international groups devoted to tackling the problems associated with 'torture and the medical profession'. He was instumental in the production ofthe firstBMA Torture Report and, a...

Social commerce is a field that is growing rapidly with the rise of Web 2.0 technologies. This paper presents a review of existing research on this topic to ensure a comprehensive understanding of social commerce. First, we explore the evolution of social commerce from its marketing origins. Next, we examine various definitions of social commerce and the motivations behind it. We also investiga...

The internet and the wireless technology have become more than just communication media. They are important business supporting tools, if not the business drivers. E-commerce and wireless e-commerce (or mobile commerce) have become the features in the global economy. They enable free flow of information among business players, increasing the speed and accuracy with which businesses exchange inf...

Man-in-the-middle attacks pose a serious threat to SSL/TLSbased electronic commerce applications, such as Internet banking. In this paper, we argue that most deployed user authentication mechanisms fail to provide protection against this type of attack, even when they run on top of SSL/TLS. As a possible countermeasure, we introduce the notion of SSL/TLS session-aware user authentication, and p...

The rapid roll out of e-commerce applications and the drive for m-commerce applications has caused the boundaries between traditional telecommunications and computer communications and storage to break down. This has lead to heterogeneous networks, mixing traditional voice and new Internet communication and storage technologies. The Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative proposes to ...

Disabled people encounter many barriers while attempting to access the services on the web. Nevertheless, many tools, which could help them to access the web, are available. E-commerce websites have been also intensively and widely used. The e-commerce market in Saudi Arabia will hit $13.3 billion by 2015. This huge investment requires e-commerce websites to be accessible by different types of ...

The use of the Internet for business purposes among small businesses started quite early in the e-commerce evolution. In the beginning, innovative and entrepreneurial owners of small businesses attempted to use rudimentary Internet tools such as electronic mail (e-mail) and file transfer protocol (FTP) to exchange messages and documents. While primitive, it fulfilled much of the business needs ...