Current eCommerce is still mainly characterized by the trading of commodity goods. Many industries offer complex compositions of goods based on customers’ specifications. This is facilitated by a component-based description of goods, supported by a variety of product classification schemes, e.g., UNSPSC and eCl@ss. These focus on physical goods – wrongly referred to as products – rather than on...

Electronic business (e-business) conducts many activities of a traditional business process by using information and communication technologies. E-business is usually done through the Internet and intranets. As a part of e-business, electronic commerce (e-commerce) handles the process of buying and selling goods and services between business and consumers (B2C e-commerce). E-commerce evolved to...

transportation industry is the most dynamic components of any society. in the twenty-first century, with the growth of technology and the widespread use of the internet and the emergence of e-commerce and e-business interaction and active transportation industry deserves to have a wide range of electronic services to the transportation community to take advantage of the investors of the new and...

BACKGROUND In the context of global increases in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, the objective of the present study is to investigate the factors affecting individuals' decisions to use health-promoting goods and services. METHODS The Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS III), consisting of 30992 respondents, was analysed. The Pearson chi-square test was applied to co...

Our goal is to design and build agents that act intelligently when placed in an agent-based information economy, where agents buy and sell services (e.g. thesaurus, search, task planning services, etc.). The economy we are working in is the University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL), a large scale multidisciplinary effort to build an infrastructure for the delivery of library services [2]. I...