the aim of this paper is to identify the quality factors of business to business (b2b) electronic commerce applications. having in mind the above-mentioned goal, a model will be developed in three phases. at the first stage, well-known software quality models are studied for choosing a model as the basis and using the quality factors of web applications and through referring to the quality char...

Electronic commerce depends on credit system much more than traditional commerce. Credit problem becomes the bottleneck in the development of electronic commerce. Since it is the research basis and object for wholly credit evaluation, how to design the Indexing system of enterprise credit evaluation in B2B is very important. The paper tries to establish the Indexing system with consideration th...

Because business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers, they strive to foster a trustworthy trading environment with a variety of trust-building measures. However, little research has been undertaken to explore trust-building measures used in B2B e-marketplaces, or to determine to what extent these measures are applied in B...

Of the array of electronic commerce business models, business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) have been one of the most heralded. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online buying community. E-marketplaces promise to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement activities by replacing traditional manual ...

by the explosive growth of b2b e-commerce transactions in international supply chains and the rapid increase of business documents in iran’s cross-border trading, effective management of trade processes over borders is vital in b2b e-commerce systems. structure of the localized model in this paper is based on three major layers of a b2b e-commerce infrastructure, which are messaging layer, busi...

Attending the rapid growth of B2B e-commerce is an equally rapid fragmentation of what was once—and still is, in many quarters—conceived of as a global marketplace. Indeed, the most successful examples of B2B ecommerce have taken place in niche markets with specialized vocabularies and processes. Relative to the ideal of a universally accessible global marketplace, specialized markets represent...

The application of Internet technologies to online transactions has lead to the amazing growth of Internetbased electronic markets (e-markets). This paper describes an Internet-based directory service for e-markets that aims to facilitate online buyers by making the process of finding an e-market easier and less time-consuming. This service, termed e-Market Metadata (eMaM) directory service, is...

With the increasing dissemination and acceptance of Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) a variety of opportunities as well as challenges and threats arise (Marston et al. 2011). In particular, in order to increase market transparency specific aggregation and brokerage functionalities need to be addressed (Marston et al. 2011; Ried 2011). In practice, several companies have begun to...

With the inception of the Internet, huge opportunities have arisen for intelligent automation of business-based transactions. Intelligent agent architectures have gained acceptance in implementing this domain and supporting electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents in electronic commerce has mostly been directed toward applications that support transactions b...

The article analyzes the adaptability of SMC model, based on the features of purchase decision in B2B market. At the beginning of this article, we introduce the SMC model and its hypothesis, and then modify the model considering the characteristics of B2B market and the effects on purchasing decisions from the services provided by suppliers. Finally, we examine the modified model by a case, and...