Electronic commerce may well be the 'killer app' that pushes the Web Internet into permanent orbit and sharp entrepreneurs want to get into the act early. Electronic Commerce contains 16 papers covering strategy, execution and support issues important for anyone involved in building merchant systems for the Internet. This is relevant information about the enabling technologies behind electronic commerce.
December 7, 1998
The papers were presented at the International IFFP/GI Working Conference on Trends and Distributed Systems for Electronic Commerce (TrEC'98) in Hamburg. Although the presentation is a bit dry and technical it is refreshingly not the usual business-fluff I see so much of lately. The issues covered are vital if you are preparing for any involvement in electronic commerce and well worth a read for anyone preparing a small or large commerce-oriented Web site.
The book goes well past what you have probably grown to expect from today's 'eCommerce' titles. Here's a list of the chapters so you can judge for yourself the value to you and your projects:
Workload Characterization Tools for e-commerce Servers
A Model-Centered Electronic Commerce
An Architecture for Information Brokerage Services
Supporting global electronic commerce with ODP tools
Using Cooperation in QoS Selection to Reduce Service Cost
Open Nested Type Structures and Partial Unification
Web-Based Business-to-Business Negotiation Support
Opportunities for Electronic Commerce in Agent-Based Information Discovery
An agent architecture for personalized interaction with customers in virtual stores
EDI as the backbone of Electronic Commerce
Mobile Electronic Commerce: GeldKarte Loading Functionality in Wireless Wallets
Java Smart Cares as a Platform for Electronic Commerce
Interconnectivity in Transport and Port Business
Don't let the geeky-sounding chapter titles put you off. This is readable stuff you need to know. Agent technology and seemingly-overlooked EDI are things covered well here that Web developers need to know more about. This is about the guts of electronic commerce - how to actually get the money, for instance.
Electronic Commerce
by Frank Griffel, Tuan Tu, Winfreid Lamersdorf (editors)
191 Pages
ISBN# 3-932588-24-X
1998
