For more than a decade the Internet was confronted with ignorance and resistance in many European countries. National and European technology policies were unfavorable to not invented here technologies and committed to open networks of a different kind. The incumbent network operators in...

Die derzeit durch Studien festgestellte Abnahme des Interesses gegenüber 'Mobile e-business' verwundert nicht angesichts der sehr eingeengten Diskussion, die auf Lösungen für Mobiltelefone und elektronische Organizer fokussiert ist. 'Mobile e-business' geht weit darüber hinaus und wird...

The emergence of the internet leads to a vast increase in the number of interactionsbetween parties that are completely alien to each other. In general, such transactionsare likely to be subject to fraud and cheating. If such systems use computerized rationalagents to negotiate and execute...