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E-Business Applications

Technologies for Tommorow's Solutions

  • Covers all relevant areas of E-Commerce with detailed prototype descriptions (CRM, SCM, Virtual Sales Assistants, Electronic Market Places, Personalized Web Pages)
  • Equally balanced coverage of both economic and technical issues
  • Presents today's leading-edge implementations that will shape e-commerce systems mid-term
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advanced Information Processing (AIP)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
  2. E-Business — State of the Art and Trends

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
    2. E-Business Principles, Trends and Visions

      • J. Browne, P. Higgins, I. Hunt
      Pages 3-16
    3. Emerging Concepts in E-Business and Extended Products

      • Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Jens Eschenbächer, Harinder S. Jagdev
      Pages 17-37
    4. Transactions in E-Procurement

      • Andrew Slade
      Pages 47-58
  3. Advanced E-Commerce Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-60
    2. Intelligent E-Commerce with Guiding Agents Based on Personalized Interaction Tools

      • U. Thiel, M. L’Abbate, A. Paradiso, A. Stein, G. Semeraro, F. Abbattista et al.
      Pages 61-76
    3. A Virtual-Sales-Assistant Architecture for E-Business Environments

      • Thorsten Gurzki, Patrick Schweizer, Claus-T Eberhardt
      Pages 77-86
    4. Knowledge-Intensive Product Search and Customization in Electronic Commerce

      • Ralph Bergmann, Ralph Traphöner, Sascha Schmitt, Pádraig Cunningham, Barry Smyth
      Pages 87-101
    5. Lean Configuration: Interactive 3D Configuration for E-Commerce Environments

      • Kai-Oliver Detken, Ioannis Fikouras
      Pages 103-122
    6. Web-Based Commerce in Complex Products and Services with Multiple Suppliers

      • Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Anna Goy, Dietmar Jannach, Ralph Schäfer et al.
      Pages 123-135
  4. Supply Chain Management Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-154
    2. Intercompany Supply Chain Management Based on a Holistic E-Business Concept

      • Jörg Martinetz, Nick Brehmer, Berthold Meik, Michael Arendt
      Pages 155-170
    3. Dynamic Forecasting for Master Production Planning with Stock and Capacity Constraints

      • João José Pinto Ferreira, Nuno Santos Antunes, João Carlos Azinhais, Ricardo José Rabelo, Alexandra Pereira Klen, Daniel Gillblad et al.
      Pages 207-217
  5. Extended- and Virtual-Enterprise Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-220
    2. Cooperation in Dynamic Networked Organizations

      • Florent Frederix
      Pages 221-232

About this book

E-Business has become a fact for almost all companies. But what are the key technologies for economically successful e-commerce? In this book readers will find all concepts that will coin tomorrow’s e-business: virtual sales assistants (shopbots), personalized web pages, electronic market places, vendor managed inventory, virtual organizations, supply chain management. Both technical and economic issues of these concepts are discussed in detail. Leading-edge real world applications are presented that will shape e-business mid-term.

This book is a must-read for managers or technical consultants as well as researchers needing in-depth information for strategic business decisions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • DG INFSO, BU-29, European Commision, Brussels, Belgium

    Jorge Gasós

  • BIBA, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Thoben

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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