Contemporary Web stores offer a wide range of products to e-customers. However, online sales are strongly dominated by a limited number of bestsellers whereas other, less popular or niche products are stored in inventory for a long time. Thus, they contribute to the problem of frozen capital and...

The paper concerns Web server log file analysis to discover knowledge useful for online retailers. Data for one month of the online bookstore operation was analyzed with respect to the probability of making a purchase by e-customers. Key states and characteristics of user sessions were...

In this article methodology of e-shops comparison was proposed. 10 groups of internet shops features were distinguished and briefly described. 6 internet shops were analysed as an example of application the proposed method. Suggested method of e-shops comparison can be useful not only for IT...

In this article the problem of international trade of Polish e-shops were analysed. The first part of this article presents the characteristics of Polish online shops engaged in foreign sales. The focus of this part is on the European Union market. The following chapter introduces most important...

The general aim of this article is to present genetic algorithms as a tool, that can be used in de-mand forecasting in internet shops. First part of article identities factors, which have to be taken into consideration during analysing demand in internet shops, e.g. dispersion of demand,...

In this article e-commerce features, which determines market globalisation were discussed. These fea-tures were divided into facilities and barrier factors. Then an example of activities which should over-come company when it wants to sell globally. In the last part of article four stages of...

The aim of this paper is to present main phases of Polish e-commerce development and to show its major trends. The author also tries to predict future directions of its development. The whole e-commerce process of development is divided into five phases. The first part of the paper presents the...

In this article main advantages and disadvantages of internet distribution as additional channel were analysed. The profs were divided into real, illusory and ambiguous factors. Then threats and disadvantages were shown. The important issues concerning additional internet channel were also...

The aim of this paper is to analyse on-line services as well as to classify them and show their main advantages and disadvantages. In the first part of the paper the author proposes a short taxonomy of on-line services. Then the typical course of on-line services realization is presented and the...

The method of forecasting seasonal demand applying genetic algorithm is presented. Specific form of used demand function is shown in the first section of the article. Next the method of identification of the function parameters using genetic algorithms is discussed. In the final section an...