In today's world, most financial transactions are carried out using done through electronic instruments and in the context of the Information Technology and Internet. Disregarding the application of new technologies at this field and sufficing to traditional ways, will result in financial loss and customer dissatisfaction. The aim of the present study is surveying and analyzing the use of elect...

The enormous growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has made these two technologies an important potential adjunct to cost-effective health care research and delivery. This article surveys some recent developments in telecommunications, networking and artificial intelligence that are likely to have a significant impact on improving the efficiency and quality of future health care. Issues...

Everyday more companies extend the use of Internet apart from informational uses. The progression to more sophisticated Internet usage will need that customers trust on the security of the online transactions and on the security mechanisms involved in this protection. For that reason, moreover the common marketing techniques, some special marketing on Internet security will be needed. In fact, ...

We propose new concepts in Quality of Service (QoS) and scheduling for the wireless Internet that account for the following key observations: (a) Internet traffic is long range dependent, or heavy-tailed, but the conventional approach of handling this via more conservative resource provisioning is unattractive in relatively low bandwidth wireless networks. (b) Flat rate charging is an attractiv...

Governments across the globe are facing challenging times to generate more revenue because of the economic slowdown and to balance their budgets. There is a growing need to find new ways of revenue generation as spending cuts and austerity measures don't go well with most sections of the society, especially during difficult economic times. Internet Today is seen more as a necessary commodity an...

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...

∗ This work was done while at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland. This paper is an updated version of [12]. Abstract—Existing smartcards developed for point-ofsale payments are being considered for use in Internet transactions. Such use provides an alternative to designing new smartcard solutions supporting protocols more specifically designed for Internet payments, suc...

The early struggles with the internet was finding a way to safely buy and sell goods or transfer funds using computer and telecommunication networks. The goal was to enable e-commerce by providing a safe, convenient and immediate payment system on the internet. But internet is notorious for giving its users a feeling of anonymity. The inadequate security results in major damage. Now a days a nu...

Electronic commerce is a transaction model with different characteristics from conventional models, especially reach that not only local but also global in character. This new method can create business directly or often online. Through this trade transaction, the existing trading concept be changed to telemarketing concept, namely remote using internet. Transaction activities are attempted thr...

Internet auction fraud has become prevalent. Methodologies for detecting fraudulent transactions use historical information about Internet auction participants to decide whether or not a user is a potential fraudster. The information includes reputation scores, values of items, time frames of various activities and transaction records. This paper presents a distinctive set of fraudster characte...