Digital Communities in a Networked Society e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government

Digital Communities in a Networked Society: e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government deals with the accelerating evolution in the computerization of society. This evolution, or should we call it a revolution, is dominantly driven by the Internet, and documented by the novelties introduced, year by year, by Information and Communication Technologies.
The book contains recent results of research and development in the areas of:
-E-government,
-Business models of e-applications,
-Innovative structures in the internet,
-Auctions and e-payment,
-Future aspects of communication,
-Internet and the web,
-Advanced platforms and grid computing,
-Cooperation and integration,
-Modeling and construction of e-services.

E-Government — A Roadmap for Progress.- Reducing Normative and Informative Asymmetries in Fiscal Management for Local Administrations.- Who are the Internet Content Providers?.- Net Market Makers in the Australian B2B E-Space.- The Success Strategies for Hybrid Business Model.- Influence of Electronic Business Technologies on Supply Chain Transformation.- Product Platforms for the Media Industry.- Dynamic Management of Business Service Quality in Collaborative Commerce Systems.- Software for the Changing E-Business.- Dynamic ROI Calculations for E-Commerce Systems.- ?P: A Micropayment System.- Electronic Auctions in Finland.- I-Centric Communications.- A Communication Framework Towards Flexible Associations of Businesses in Evolving Environments.- Introducing New Business Models in Provision of QoS Networks.- The Semantic Web.- Web Personalization Based on User’s Trade-Offs.- XML Alone is not Sufficient for Effective WebEDI.- Institutional Websites Personalization Using Macro and Micro User Profiles.- The Grid: An Enabling Infrastructure for Future E-Business, E-Commerce and E-Government Applications.- Inter-Organizational E-Services Accounting Management on Computational Grids.- A Web Services Provider.- Using Metamodels to Promote Data Integration in an E-Government Application Scenario.- A Service Oriented Approach to Interorganisational Cooperation.- A Data and Event Oriented Workflow Process Definition Metamodel Coherent with the UML Profile for EDOC Systems.- XML-Based E-Contracting.- ICT Support for Evolving Harmonization of International Alliances.- Modeling Framework for E-Business Systems.- Reference Models for Advanced E-Services.- Mapping “Enterprise Business Architecture” to “Information Systems Framework”.- A Cots-Oriented Process forConstructing Adaptable E-Government Services.- Analysis of the Relation between Service Parameters for Service Level Management and System Utilization.- Use of Models and Modelling Techniques for Service Development.