In this paper, we show that Service Oriented Architectures enable exchanges to be more flexible inside the virtual enterprise (VE), because they create an electronic market-place b...
Due to the widespread appearance of filesharing systems like Napster, the peer-to-peer concept has recently become well known. So far, these file-sharing systems have been used fo...
Matchmaking is the process of mediating demand and supply based on profile information. Matchmaking plays a crucial role in agent-based electronic marketplaces: the problem to be ...
Understanding consumer behavior is of vital importance to consumer oriented e-business models today. In this paper we report on a study into the relationships between consumer per...
This paper presents the design of an interaction environment for fostering social interactions in electronic marketplaces. The environment incorporates a novel, spatially-organize...