E-Commerce and Web Technologies 4th International Conference, EC-Web, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Commerce 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2003.

The 42 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and a position paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on auctions, security, agents and search, ebXML, modeling and technology, XML, design and performance, business processes, and brokering and recommender systems.

Invited Talk.- Trust for Digital Products.- Auctions.- e-Procurement Using Goal Programming.- Increasing Realized Revenue via Profit Redistribution: A Variant of Online Dutch Auction.- A Combinatorial Exchange for Autonomous Traders.- A Web Services Matchmaking Engine for Web Services.- Security 1.- A Secure Electronic Payment Scheme for Charity Donations.- Smart Card Based Mobile Payment with Fairness Revocation Mechanism.- Enhancing E-commerce Security Using GSM Authentication.- Security 2.- The ET-RBAC Based Privilege Management Infrastructure for Wireless Networks.- Efficient Signature Validation Based on a New PKI.- An Anonymous Asymmetric Public Key Traitor Tracing Scheme.- Toward a Security EC Transaction on Web.- Agents and Search.- Genetic Local Search in an Automated Contracting Environment.- Mobile Agents for Web Service Composition.- eb XML.- Development of an ebXML Conformance Test System for e-Business Solutions.- ebIOP: An ebXML Compliant B2B Interoperability Platform.- Security 3.- A Watermarking Method for Halftone Images Based on Iterative Halftoning Method.- A Security Architecture for Reputation Systems.- TY*SecureWS: An Integrated Web Service Security Solution Based on Java.- Security 4.- Protecting Intellectual Property by Guessing Secrets.- A Privacy-Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Reputation System.- Profiting from Untrusted Parties in Web-Based Applications.- Modeling and Technology.- An Access Scheduling Tree to Achieve Optimal Freshness in Local Repositories.- Cooperative Queries in Semistructured Data Model.- Using Internet Glossaries to Determine Interests from Home Pages.- XML.- Transformation of XML Data Using an Unranked Tree Transducer.- Storing DTD-Conscious XML Data in XEDY.- Efficient Maintenance of XML Views Using View Correspondence Assertions.- Case Studies.- On Verifying the Internet Open Trading Protocol.- Strategies for E-commerce Applications in Tourism.- Analysis and Design of e-Commerce Applications on the Web: A Case Study of OO Techniques and Notations.- Web Metrics for Retailers.- Modeling, Design and Performance.- Metamodeling-Based Semantic Web Languages.- Designing Web Menu for Configurable Goods.- Customizing Business Processes in Web Applications.- Characterizing Crawler Behavior from Web Server Access Logs.- Business Processes.- Enterprise Model Integration.- Matching Algorithms for Composing Business Process Solutions with Web Services.- Dynamic Modelling of Strategic Supply Chains.- Brokering and Recommender Systems.- Group Typical Preference Extraction Using Collaborative Filtering Profile.- Exploiting Similarity Measures in Multi-criteria Based Recommendations.- Brokering Services in Cooperative Distributed Systems: Privacy-Based Model.- Position Paper.- Enterprise Application Integration – Future Revisited?.