| 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.
In the last years we have observed a accelerating evolution in the computerization of the society. This evolution, or should we call it a revolution, is dominantly driven by the Internet, and documented in several ways:
- The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) bring, year per year, novelties: new processing architectures, new software methodologies, new systems and products, new communication networks. Distributed Processing Architectures spread in the Internet (e.g. Enterprise Distributed System, Distributed Object Computing, Grid Computing). Due to the proliferation of Platform and Middleware, some old software development approaches mature (e.g. MDA - Model Driven Architecture). In the field of Knowledge, the last years saw an interesting development of Metadata Techniques (e.g. based on MOFOMG). Otherwise, representation of Knowledge and Semantic Processing, introduced in the past by the AI Community saw a strong push with the proposals of Semantic Web. And, without any question, the new communication technologies, bringing mobility, ubiquity and personalization, will change the ways in which individuals and public organizations perform their activities.
- The application fields of those technologies are expanding constantly transferring high benefits for the users, human beings (clients, consumers, citizens) and organizations (SME’s and big enterprises, public administration in the spheres of federal, state and local governments activities). Not only do the technologies cause profound modifications in the enterprise structures , but also give new tools to the quest for new organizational forms that bring more productivity and the chance of survival in the new global world of commerce, business and government. In Electronic Business, enterprises build production networks and proceed to expressive reorganization of their internal activities. And in Electronic Government, still in its infancy, practically all nations in the world -rich or poor - search the way to use ICT, to reach efficiency, and to eliminate old problems such as corruption. It is not yet possible to foresee the impacts for the citizen but, by sure, the old democracy is being reshaped.
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