Past Special Issues

The Internet and the World Wide Web have brought a fundamental change in the way that individuals access data, information and services. Individuals have access to vast amounts of data, to experts and services that are not limited in time or space. This has forced business to change the way in which they conduct their commercial transactions with their end customers and with other businesses, resulting in the development of a global market through the Internet. The emergence of the Internet and electronic commerce raises many new research issues. The Electronic Commerce Research journal will serve as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research into all facets of electronic commerce – from research into core enabling technologies to work on assessing and understanding the implications of these technologies on societies, economies, businesses and individuals. The journal covers both empirical/behavioral as well as empirical research that leads to better understanding of electronic commerce and its implications.

Topics covered by the journal include, but are not restricted to the following subjects as they relate to the Internet and electronic commerce:

• Intelligent agents technologies and their impact.
• The global aspects of electronic commerce.
• Trust and reputation on the Internet.
• Fraud reduction on the Internet.
• Mobile electronic commerce.
• Virtual electronic commerce systems.
• Application of computer and communication technologies to electronic commerce.
• Electronic market mechanisms and their impact.
• Purchasing over the Internet.
• Business models of Internet based companies.
• Authentication and identification of users and transactions on the Internet.
• Security, privacy, authorization and authentication of users and transactions on the Internet.
• Electronic data interchange over the Internet.
• Electronic payment systems and electronic funds transfer.
• The impact of electronic commerce on organizational structures and processes.
• Supply chain management through the Internet.
• Marketing on the Internet.
• Online adaptive advertisements.
• Graphical interface to electronic commerce and their analysis.
• Metrics, measurement and prediction of user activity.
• On-line stock markets and financial trading.
• User devices for accessing the Internet and conducting electronic transactions.
• Different based technologies and languages on the WWW.
• Web based languages (e.g., HTML, XML, VRML, Java).
• Multimedia storage and distribution.
• Distance learning.
• Collaborative learning, gaming and work.
• Presentation page design techniques and tools.
• Virtual reality on the net and 3D visualizations.
• Browsers and user interfaces.
• Web site management techniques and tools.
• Managing middleware to support electronic commerce.
• Web based education, and training.
• Electronic journals and publishing on the Internet.
• Legal issues, taxation and property rights.
• Modeling and design of networks to support Internet applications.
• Modeling, design and timing of web site access.
• Reliability of internet on-line applications.
• Pervasive devices and pervasive computing in electronic commerce.
• Workflow for electronic commerce applications.
• Classification methodologies for electronic commerce.
• Personalization and mass customization technologies.
• Marketing and customer relationship management in electronic commerce.
• Others of relevance.

Academic Students and professionals involved in electronic commerce research and the application and use of the Internet. Managers, consultants, decision-makers and developers who value the use of electronic commerce research results.