0 the business of buying and selling goods and services on the internet --
1 the buying and selling of goods and services over the internet: --
e-commerce software/application/platform
adopt/get into/embrace e-commerce Today it's almost impossible to do business without embracing ecommerce.
Recognizing the value of e-commerce, traditional companies also jumped online.
The critical question now is whether the current legislation offers protection for all parties involved when agents are used in e-commerce transactions.
We discuss the perceived risks of the use of agents in e-commerce and the fundamental issue of trust in this context.
Developing and validating trust measures for e-commerce: an integrative topology.
There has already been some headway towards the direction of automating e-commerce through the use of agent technology.
Partially or fully automating some of the processes involved in e-commerce will bring about significant cost savings.
The perceived risks of the use of agents in e-commerce are presented next.
In the following section the applications of agent technology in e-commerce are briefly discussed.
In this paper we consider the barriers for the adoption of agent technology in electronic commerce (e-commerce) which pertain to trust, security and legal issues.