over the recent years, rapid development of information technology (it) and electronic commerce (e-commerce) has dramatically affected world trade and the way business is conducted. also the benefits of using e-commerce and other internet-based technologies have been well recognized through extensive surveys pointing the dominant role of it in different industries. however, implementation of an...

Electronic commerce is a driving force for IT. Mobile agents provit from this development, and offer substantial advantages for certain electronic commerce applications in return. Yet, a number of criteria should be applied to electronic commerce applications to assess which areas are best suited for mobile agents. A major requirement to build confidence in mobile agent technology is the availa...

with the increased confidence in the use of the internet and the world wide web, the number of electronic commerce (e-commerce) transactions is growing rapidly. therefore, finding useful patterns and rules of users’ behaviors has become the critical issue for e-commerce and can be used to tailor e-commerce services in order to successfully meet the customers’ needs. this paper proposes an appro...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) seems to be a powerful tool for retailers. In our paper we show, how leading Austrian retailers reply to the ‘electronic revolution’ by analysing their electronic channels (webpages). We refer in our paper to the e-commerce, to end-users and to the ecommerce efforts of stationary retailing companies. In a first step we have integrated e-commerce to the instituti...

Since electronic commerce transaction are characterised by their highly communicative character, the Language-Action-perspective proves to be very suitable to provide a deep-structure analysis because it concentrates on the essential aspects of an electronic commerce transaction rather than the form. In this paper, we present a layered pattern definition language, based on various L/A-perspecti...

Electronic commerce is a technological tool that provides benefits to companies that decide to adopt it. However, among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), its use is incipient. In order to take advantage of the benefits that electronic commerce may provide, it is necessary to know the factors that directly or indirectly influence its adoption. This study proposes a research model that i...

Electronic commerce protocols are the basis of security in electronic commerce. Therefore, it is essential to ensure these protocols correctly. With the ideas of ZQ logic and the security protocols analysis method using Colored Petri Nets, a new method synthesizing ZQ logic and Colored Petri Nets is presented to analyze electronic commerce protocols. The new method is suitable for analyzing bot...

China is a large agricultural country, yet the development environment of E-business in China is not mature. E-Commerce of agricultural products is a revolutionary change of traditional agricultural economy. This paper focuses on agricultural products’ electronic commerce in China. Firstly, the paper describes the current situation of electronic commerce. Afterwards, the paper uses Fuzzy Analyt...

The electronic commerce assurance market has been estimated to be potentially worth $11 billion. To date, the focus of assurance services has largely been on web commerce (and, therefore, business-to-consumer or B2C) related services, leaving the business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce market relatively untapped. Yet, with electronic data interchange (EDI) being mandated by large compani...