Information Collected by
Monisha Meraney
329, Bell Hall
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-2000,U.S.A.
under the guidance of
Dr. A.Zhang
AssociateProfessor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo
226 Bell Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-2000, U.S.A.
WHAT IS E-COMMERCE ?
E-Commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. Electronic commerce is characterized by a wide range of services and operations, including : establishment of initial contact, suppliers search and negotiation, exchange of information, sales, pre- and post-sales support , electronic payment, distribution logistics, electronic contracts and digital signatures, establishment and coordination of virtual enterprises, shared business processes etc. In all of its forms, E-Commerce makes use of information technologies from different areas such as databases, transaction processing, interoperability of heterogeneous information resources, intelligent agents, multimedia systems, distributed systems, WWW, security and workflow systems.
E-Business (electronic business) is the conduct of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners.
The
terms E-Commerce and E-Business are used interchangably.
E-COMMERCE REPORT (written as a term paper)
LINKS AND PDF / PS VERSIONS OF SOME PAPERS AND ARTICLES.
Electronic
Commerce: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Commercial
Scenarios for the Web: Opportunities and Challenges
Electronic
Commerce: Effects on Electronic Markets
Intermediaries
and Cybermediaries: A Continuing Role for Mediating Players in the Electronic
Marketplace
The
Impact Of Interorganizational Networks On Buyer-Seller Relationships
Living
Apart Together In Electronic Commerce : The Use Of Information And Communication
Technology To Create Network Organizations.
The
Automation of Capital Markets
Electronic
Commerce and the Banking Industry: The Requirement and Opportunities for
New Payment Systems Using the Internet
Spontaneous
Specialization in a Free-Market Economy of Agents
Internet
Auctions
Sales
Promotions on the Internet
An
Object-Oriented Architecture for Business-To-Consumer Electronic commerce
on the Internet
E-Commerce
Intelligence : Measuring Analyzing. and Reporting on Merchandisin Effectiveness
of Online Stores
A
Practical Approach to Web-Base Internet EDI
Foresight-based
pricing algorithms in an economy of software agents
Business
negotiations on the Internet
Risks
and Challenges for Retailers : The Value Chain Transformation. A
European Perspective
The
Supply Side is Loosing Ground: E-Commerce Challenge
E-Commerce
:A Report
Tax
and the Internet
Business-to-Business
e-Commerce with Open Buying on the Internet
Price
Dynamics of Vertically Differentiated Information Markets
Dynamics
of an Information-Filtering Economy
"Insights"
Into Customer-centric eBusiness
Price
and Niche Wars in a Free-Market Economy of Software Agents
The
Role of the Telephone in the New Customer Service Model.
The
Future of Customer Service: The Web Subsumes the Telephone
Silknet
eService, the state of the art in Internet application development
Silknet
Software: Changing the Rules for Next-Generation Customer Support Applications
What
it Means to Deliver Customer Service on the Web
WIZnet:
Putting the Business in Business-to-Business E-Commerce
The
Challenge of Electronic Commerce: Selling lemonade has never been this
tough
A FEW LINKS TO E-COMMERCE SITES
Research,
Papers, Books, Bibliographies, etc.
Other
Electronic Markets & Electronic Commerce Resources
Some
Players in Electronic Markets & Electronic Commerce
eCommerce
Resources
Electronic
Commerce Resources
The
Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce
Electronic
Money Initiatives
IBM
Institute of Advanced Commerce