Advances the understanding of management methods, information technology, and their joint application in business processes. The applications of electronic commerce draw great attention of the practitioners in applying digital technologies to the buy-and-sell activities. This book addresses the...

Explores the semantic web and intelligent web services, two methods created to help solidify the meaning and relationship of data, and explains how they relate to business processes. Professionals, policy-makers, academics, researchers, and managers in IT, business, and commerce will find this...

"This book delivers definitive research on the use of agent technologies to advance the practice of electronic business in today's organizations, targeting the needs of enterprises in open and dynamic business opportunities to incorporate skilled use of multiple independent information systems....

Collaborative Commerce Eldon Y. Li, Timon C. Du -- Electronic Collaboration, Communication and Cooperation: A Taxonomy and a Prototype Gregoris Mentzas, Georgia Bafoutsou -- Collaborative Product Development George Q. Huang -- Collaborative Engineering Manuel Contero, Carlos Vila --...