Showing papers in "Electronic Commerce Research and Applications in 2004"

TL;DR: The results from a Web survey of 932 users show that the technology acceptance model (TAM) is valid in predicting the acceptance of the Internet shopping malls and that online and offline features have positive effects on the user acceptance.

TL;DR: This work extends, for the first time, RuleML’s definition from the ordinary logic programs KR to situated courteous logic programs (SCLP), an expressively general KR that supports prioritized conflict handling and procedural attachments for actions and queries.

TL;DR: The results indicate that mobile commerce (M-commerce) differs substantially from Web-based commerce in some technological components, yet both share common business model.

TL;DR: Empirical results show positive correlation between stability and incentive compatibility (which is in turn related to efficiency) and the impossibility to simultaneously satisfy efficiency, budget balance and individual rationality at a Bayesian–Nash equilibrium.

TL;DR: PayCash is an Internet payment system that was designed to offer strong security and privacy protection, extended to support a flexible anonymity policy so as to accommodate privacy and security laws that differ from nation to nation.

TL;DR: Issues on the legality of E-Commerce in Islam are examined to expose to Muslims around the world so that they could benefit from this new technology if it is proved legal and acceptable in Islam.

TL;DR: This paper discusses how standard conventional contracts can be described by means of finite state machines (FSMs), which helps eliminate ambiguities from the original text before the contract is coded into a computer program.

TL;DR: This paper identifies the security vulnerabilities of MAGNET (Multi AGent Negotiation Testbed) and presents a solution that overcomes these weaknesses and successfully minimize the trust on the market as well as increase the security of the whole system.

TL;DR: The skills and knowledge required for successful electronic commerce projects in the UK SME sector are examined based upon detailed case studies in three SME organisations from the Northwest region of England over a two year period.

TL;DR: A novel coalition formation approach that is called Credit Based Group Negotiation is presented, which extends the concept of group buying to group selling and consequently enhances the market function.

TL;DR: PumaMart is presented, a Parallel and autonomous agents based Internet Marketplace, which deploys several novel models to facilitate autonomous and automatic online buying and selling by software agents (stationary and mobile) while providing fast response to consumers.

TL;DR: A partially automated intermediary, namely the Digital Signage Exchange, is introduced, which enables the formation of a virtual marketplace for display time on the digital signage network and facilitates collaboration between buyers and sellers.

TL;DR: This paper verifies the relation between audience impressions and the visual style of a B2C web page and shows cross-cultural consistencies in various impressions but also several differences between the subject groups.

TL;DR: A mediation protocol that is based on the single negotiation text (SNT) device suggested by Roger Fisher is proposed, which provides a deal-construction game to be played by both protagonists, not only ensuring a rational strategy but also producing better outcomes than would be achieved by flipping a coin.

TL;DR: ABBA is a layered architecture with four interfaced abstraction levels that aims at making a common view of the business process independent from the implementing technology, and providing guidelines for a design process to develop comprehensive, interoperable and scalable B2B EC applications.

TL;DR: A prototype implementation of the framework for one of the central activities of e-marketplaces: matchmaking of trading intentions lodged by market participants is presented, illustrating its ability to be dynamically configured to meet specific market needs and its potential to serve as a foundation for more fully fledged e- marketplace frameworks.

TL;DR: A radically different approach that computes the bidders’ allocation of their attention across the bundles only at “inflection points” has several advantages over alternatives, including that it computes exact solutions and is invariant to the magnitude of the bids.

TL;DR: Six types of rule groupings have been proposed in this paper and examples from industrial domain have been taken to elucidate therule groupings.

TL;DR: This paper proposes agent-mediated non-repudiation protocols and analyzes their security requirements, then presents a simple scenario with only one recipient, followed by a more complicated framework where multiple recipients are involved and collusion between them is possible.

TL;DR: This paper takes the position that markets and engineered artifacts are the products of a social process of design formulation and follow the same kind of problem formulation and solution testing process and methodologies for modeling and testing using theoretical, analytical, computation and physical models in engineering can inform the development of methods for testing in the design of markets.

TL;DR: Results from the experimental simulations support the validity of the proposed anti-defamation model as they show the anti- defamation model is successful in protecting the simulated society from the overall damage caused by defamation.

TL;DR: The proposed solution is able to detect both quantifiable and non-quantifiable attributes through a user feedback system and allows the detection of unaccounted attributes that are not within the ontology of the system.

TL;DR: An approach for the specification of a software agent-based and Web service-oriented environment and the composition of Web services is illustrated in this paper with service chart diagrams.

TL;DR: The results show that firm's Internet strategy, internationalized strategy, and business complexity along with competitive pressure influence on the stage of web mining adoption.

TL;DR: This work proposes a factory-based approach to support agent fabrication in e-commerce and elaborate a design based on the SAFER (Secure Agent Fabrication, Evolution and Roaming) framework.

TL;DR: The use of Secure Agent Data Integrity Shield (SADIS) is proposed as a scheme that protects the integrity of data collected during agent roaming with the use of a key seed negotiation protocol and integrity protection protocol.

TL;DR: A two-phase profiling framework based on a service hub that provides the infrastructure for service hosting, aggregation, and provisioning and enables seamless integration between an individual service's profiling system and the service hub through the use of the Profiling Punchout Protocol is introduced.