Internet Open Trading Protocol

-- The Internet Explosion -- Internet commerce is expected to be a $200 billion industry by the year 2000 according to Forester Research analysts. Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) is a common standard for buying and selling on the Internet. -- Most popular systems under one umbrella -- IOTP allows many payment systems to work together such as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GoldKarte, etc. The standard is supported by the leaders in e-commerce and computing, including AT&T Universal Card Services, Hewlett Packard, IBM, MasterCard International, Oracle, SUN Microsystems, Well Fargo Bank, and many others. -- Introduction to the Standard -- This book is designed to introduce the technical community and the Internet community to IOTP with a thorough discussion of the standard and how to apply it. -- Complete coverage of the standard -- It is the first to explain the ins and outs of IOTP, why it's important for the future of E-Commerce, and how to implement IOTP. Additionally, it discusses the IOTP Trading mechanisms -- Details of the standard and the coding -- Discusses the advantages of IOTP over current standards such as EDI, and includes coverage of the necessary XML coding and how it's used with IOTP. -- Case Studies -- There is full explanation of how to implement IOTP through the use of case studies from the leaders in E-commerce, including: -- Hewlett Packard -- Open Market -- Mondex -- DigiCash

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2002, held in Adelaide, Australia, in June 2002. The 18 regular papers and one tool presentation presented together with six invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. All current issues on research and development of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems analysis, model validation, business process management, reactive systems, workflow processes, wireless transaction protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Commerce 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2003. The 42 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and a position paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on auctions, security, agents and search, ebXML, modeling and technology, XML, design and performance, business processes, and brokering and recommender systems.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Theory Building and Formal Methods in Electronic/Mobile Commerce, TheFormEMC, the first European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW, and the First International Workshop on Integration of Testing Methodologies, ITM, held jointly in association with FORTE 2004 in Toledo, Spain in October 2004. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 62 submissions. The papers are grouped in three topical sections corresponding to the workshop topics.

As businesses are continuously developing new services, procedures, and standards, electronic business has emerged into an important aspect of the science field by providing various applications through efficiently and rapidly processing information among business partners. Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions highlights the main concepts of e-business as well as the advanced methods, technologies, and aspects that focus on technical support. This book is an essential reference source of professors, students, researchers, developers, and other industry experts in order to provide a vast amount of specialized knowledge sources for promoting e-business.

In recent years, our world has experienced a profound shift and progression in available computing and knowledge sharing innovations. These emerging advancements have developed at a rapid pace, disseminating into and affecting numerous aspects of contemporary society. This has created a pivotal need for an innovative compendium encompassing the latest trends, concepts, and issues surrounding this relevant discipline area. During the past 15 years, the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology has become recognized as one of the landmark sources of the latest knowledge and discoveries in this discipline. The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition is a 10-volume set which includes 705 original and previously unpublished research articles covering a full range of perspectives, applications, and techniques contributed by thousands of experts and researchers from around the globe. This authoritative encyclopedia is an all-encompassing, well-established reference source that is ideally designed to disseminate the most forward-thinking and diverse research findings. With critical perspectives on the impact of information science management and new technologies in modern settings, including but not limited to computer science, education, healthcare, government, engineering, business, and natural and physical sciences, it is a pivotal and relevant source of knowledge that will benefit every professional within the field of information science and technology and is an invaluable addition to every academic and corporate library.

The explosive growth of the Internet has spawned a new era of security concerns. This dictionary provides reliable definitions and descriptions of Internet security terms in clear and precise English. The dictionary covers five main areas: authentication; network- level security; firewall design and implementation, and remote management; Internet security policies, risk analysis, integration across platforms, management and auditing, mobile code security Java/Active X/scripts, and mobile agent code; and security in Internet commerce.

This tutorial volume originates from the 4th Advanced Course on Petri Nets, ACPN 2003, held in Eichstätt, Germany in September 2003. In addition to lectures given at ACPN 2003, additional chapters have been commissioned to give a well-balanced presentation of the state of the art in the area. This book will be useful as both a reference for those working in the area as well as a study book for the reader who is interested in an up-to-date overview of research and development in concurrent and distributed systems; of course, readers specifically interested in theoretical or applicational aspects of Petri nets will appreciate the book as well.