Preface

SECTION ONE: Electric Commerce Opportunities, Policies and Case Studies

Electronic Commerce at the Dawn of the Third Millennium

Mahesh Raisinghani

Building E-Commerce From Ground Up: A Study of The Retail Industry

David Gordon

James E. Skibo

Principles of Digitally Mediated Replenishment of Goods: Electronic Commerce and Supply Chain Reform

Robert B. Johnston

Electronic Trade Scenario for Global Supply Chains

Ronald M. Lee

Promoting Electronic Commerce in the Defense Industry

Charles Trappey

Amy Trappey

Thomas Gulledge

Rainer Sommer

Diffusion of Electronic Commerce in Australia: A Preliminary Investigation

Mohammed Quaddus

Planning E-Strategies for New Zealand Firms: A CSF Framework for Investing in E-Commerce Projects

Liaquat Hossain

SECTION TWO: EDI Applications

Electronic Commerce Contracting for Open EDI

Andreas Mitrakas

EDI and Small/Medium Enterprises

Rob MacGregor

Deborah Bunker

Economics of EDI Investments

Ruhul A Sarker

Syed Mahbubur Rahman

SECTION THREE: Internet-Based Electronic Commerce and Payment Systems

Internet Business Models For Government Agencies

Mariam Fergusson

A Model Of Internet Commerce Adoption (Mica)

Joan Cooper

Lois Burgess

E-Retailing: New Opportunities In Internet Commerce

L F Sugianto

S Sendjaya

Consumer Motivations for Commercial Web Site Use: Antecedents to Electronic Commerce

Thomas F. Stafford

Marla Royne Stafford

The Retail Payments System and Internet Commerce

Boon-Chye Lee

SECTION FOUR: Agent Applications for Automated Transactions

Internet-enabled Smart Card Agent Environment and Applications

Teoh Kok Poh

Sheng-Uei Guan

Supporting Innovative Competitive Strategies as Mass Customization by Pairing E-Commerce Techniques with Agent Technology

Klaus Turowski

Electronic Commerce Based on Software Agent

X. Yi

C. K. Siew

Syed M Rahman

Robert Bignall

A Mobile Agent Computation Model for Best Buy Searching

Timothy K. Shih

The Design and Architecture of Secure Agent Transport Protocol for E-Commerce

Yang Yang

Sheng-Uei Guan

The Evolving Future of Agent-Based Electronic Commerce

T. Deshani Rodrigo

Peter A. Stanski

SECTION FIVE: Attacks and Legal Aspect of Electronic Commerce

The Use of the Internet by Terrorists and Its Impact Upon Electronic Commerce

Matthew Warren

William Hutchinson

The Law vis-a-vis Electronic Commerce

Assafa Endeshaw

The Challenge of the Law of Electronic Commerce: The European Union Initiatives

Severine Dusollier

Laetitia Rolin Jacquemyns

About the Authors

Index