Special Issue in Advances in e-Technology and e-Services

摘要

Rapid technological progress in such fields as Internet Technologies, Mobile Technologies, P2P/Grid Computing, Intelligence and Agents, Security and Trust and Web Services, is pushing the advancement of e-commerce/e-business/e-industry/e-government. Research and development in these fields focus on the design and implementation of advanced technologies. However, they are not primarily concerned with how their creations influence, determine, constrain, or enhance the way enterprises/industries/governments think, act, work, and collaborate, in their processes, applications, services, intelligence procreation, etc. In light of these rapid changes in technologies, it is a continuous challenge for the field of e-themes enabling technologies to keep its collective eyes on the enterprises/industries/ governments using the technologies, and understand and design the ways that enterprises/industries/governments interact with their customers, suppliers, employers and partners. This issue of ISF contains articles from practitioners and researchers to highlight various aspects of the current and future e-themes enabling technologies, charting the future course of the e-themes technology revolution. The papers present both practical and theoretical views on an evolutionary picture of the fundamental e-themes enabling technologies on trust/privacy, payment, automated negotiation, customer intelligence and mobile location-aware intelligence.