Ecra Co-editors' Introduction For Volume 7,issue 3

摘要

The articles in this issue were guest-edited by Scott Buffett and Bruce Spencer,as a post-conference special issue.The guest editors' work at the National Research Council Canada in New Brunswick,Canada.The contents reflect a blend of technical and managerial interests in e-commerce,consistent with the mission of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.The topics span a spectrum of issues,including semantic Web-based representations of constraints in distributed grid systems,P3P deployment,secrecy-preserving and trustworthy auctions,semantic representation and evaluation of bids in online markets,and the trustworthiness of advice on sellers in electronic markets.