Electronic Commerce technologies have been studied widely in the field of Economics
and Informatics. In recent years, there are multiple aspects of researches in
electronic commerce including supply chain model, Internet auctions, Internet volume
discounts, electronic bank and stock trading, and several others. The increase of
Electronic Commerce research activities can be observed in a variety of the fields.
The aim of this book is to encourage activities in this field, and to bring researchers
with an interest in Electronic Commerce. This book is edited from some aspects of
e-commerce researches including theoretical mechanism design of trading based on
auctions, allocation mechanism based on negotiation among multi-agent, case-study
and analysis of e-trading, data engineering issues in e-commerce, and so on. The reason
why the many aspects are included is to show the outline of the newest research
result of e-commerce research.We can collapse trends of the research to know them.
Finally, we would like to express our sincere thanks to all authors for their hard work.
This book would not have been possible without the valuable support and contributions
of the cooperators.