Publisher's Synopsis
Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information across the Internet. The text Electronic Commerce: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications delivers comprehensive coverage of emerging online business strategies and technologies in the electronic commerce marketplace. The goal of first chapter is to present new approaches to the creation of e-commerce systems models and new approaches to managing e-commerce systems using modern software tools for decision support. Second chapter proposes an efficient and provable fair document exchange protocol with transaction privacy. Third chapter focuses on the level of adoption of E-commerce technology at the scientific and industrial research and development Centre (SIRDC), a Zimbabwean organization established by an act of parliament, with a mandate to develop, adopt and adapt new technologies for the benefit of Zimbabwean companies and organizations. Fourth chapter presents an application of expert system on trust in electronic commerce. A model of a localized cross-border e-commerce has been focused in fifth chapter. Sixth chapter proposes a framework for quality assurance of electronic commerce websites. Seventh chapter focuses on popular design features in web interfaces of global e-commerce sites and differences arising from design in different country sites. The application of similar image retrieval in electronic commerce has been presented in eighth chapter. In ninth chapter, we describe a multi-issue negotiation protocol which allows agents to follow a process, in order to end up with an optimal decision. Tenth chapter identifies key tangible barriers and their relative importance for both e-commerce adapters and non-adapters facing Saudi consumer when shopping online. The strategic perspective about electronic commerce has been discussed in last chapter.
