Enhances libraries worldwide through top research compilations from over 250 international authors in the field of e-business.

This book provides the latest viewpoints of scientific research in the field of e-business. It is organized into three sections: “Higher Education and Digital Economy Development”, “Artificial Intelligence in E-Business”, and “Business Intelligence Applications”. Chapters focus on China’s higher education in e-commerce, digital economy development, natural language processing applications in business, Information Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC), business intelligence, and more.

"This books tackles issues of e-business with a vision to the future on how to bridge these gaps and close down the barriers between the different corners of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Advances in Electronic Business 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 timely book addresses the importance of management and technology issues in electronic business, including collaborative design, collaborative engineering, collaborative decision making, electronic collaboration, communication and cooperation, workflow collaboration, knowledge networking, collaborative e-learning, costs and benefits analysis of collaboration, collaborative transportation and ethics.

"This book offers insights into issues, challenges, and solutions related to the successful application and management aspects of electronic business, providing a comprehensive framework for researchers and practitioners in understanding the growing demand of e-business research"--Provided by publisher.

In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business and education on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed as a vital condition for maximization of both short-term and long-term profits. Electronic Business and Education: Recent Advances in Internet Infrastructures discusses current research topics in the domain of system support for e-business and e-education on the Internet, and stresses the synergistic interaction of these two components. Attention is given to both scientific and engineering issues. Electronic Business and Education: Recent Advances in Internet Infrastructures is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, particularly in the area of e-business and e-education on the Internet. `There is no longer any question that the Internet and electronic communication are the major new tools for collaborative advances in the creation of new knowledge and in future learning.' Excerpt from Foreword by Robert C. Richardson, Nobel Laureate 1996, Cornell University, USA

This guidebook is based on the belief that e-business applications will transform academia and academic support experiences, with learners participating in distributed learning environments that mix physical and virtual learning resources in many combinations, and it offers insights into the strategies and planning needed to develop a college campus infrastructure of e-business applications, products, and services. The ten chapters cover the following topics: (1) "What Is E-Business and Why Is It Important?"; (2) "The Status of E-Business Today and Tomorrow"; (3) "Future E-Business Applications in Education"; (4) "Building Migration Paths for E-Business in Education"; (5) "Technology Infrastructures, Tools, and Competencies"; (6) "Investing in Technologies To Support E-Business: Important Roles for the Business Officer" (7) "Policies, Standards, and Legal and Security Competencies"; (8) "Strategic Alliances and Co-Sourcing Competencies"; (9) "New Tools: Electronic Publishing, Learningware, Learning Agents, and Online Communities"; and (10) Paving the Way for E-Business: 20 Initiatives for Your Learning Enterprise." A list of on-line resources is appended. (Contains 78 references.) (CH)

Although only a few years old, electronic commerce offers new ways of doing business that no business can afford to ignore. This book is a collection of selected contributions from renowned researchers who specialize in the various facets of electronic commerce, namely economics, finance, information technology, and education. The basic goal is to give an overview of some of the most relevant topics in E-Commerce.

"This research book is a repository for academicians, researchers, and industry practitioners to share and exchange their research ideas, theories, and practical experiences, discuss challenges and opportunities, and present tools and techniques in all aspects of e-business development and management in the digital economy"--Provided by publisher.

2. Introduction to Internet Explorer 5 and the World Wide Web. 3. e-Business Models. 4. Internet Marketing. 5. Online Monetary Transactions. 6. Legal, Ethical and Social Issues; Internet Taxation. 7. Computer and Network Security. 8. Hardware, Software and Communications. 9. Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4 (HTML 4). 10. Intermediate HTML 4. 11. Ultimate Paint. 12. Microsoft FrontPage Express. 13. JavaScript/JScript: Introduction to Scripting. 14. JavaScript/JScript: Control Structures I. 15. JavaScript/JScript: Control Structures II. 16. JavaScript/JScript: Functions. 17. JavaScript/JScript: Arrays. 18. JavaScript/JScript: Objects. 19. Dynamic HTML: Cascading Style SheetsT (CSS). 20. Dynamic HTML: Object Model and Collections. 21. Dynamic HTML: Event Model. 22. Dynamic HTML: Filters and Transitions. 23. Dynamic HTML: Data Binding with Tabular Data Control. 24. Dynamic HTML: Client-Side Scripting with VBScript. 25. Active Server Pages (ASP). 26. ASP Case Studies. 27. XML (Extensible Markup Language). 28. Case Study: An Online Bookstore. 29. Perl 5 and CGI (Common Gateway Interface). 30. Dynamic HTML: Structured Graphics ActiveX Control. 31. Dynamic HTML: Path, Sequencer and Sprite ActiveX Controls. 32. Multimedia: Audio, Video, Speech Synthesis and Recognition. 33. Macromediar FlashT 4: Building Interactive Animations. 34. Accessibility. Appendix A: HTML Special Characters. Appendix B: HTML Colors. Appendix C: ASCII Character Set. Appendix D: Operator Precedence Charts. Bibliography. Index.