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Electronic commerce transactions; EC transactions
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“An electronic transaction is the sale or purchase of goods or services, whether between businesses, households, individuals, governments, and other public or private organizations, conducted over computer mediated networks. The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and the ultimate delivery of the good or service may be conducted on or off-line.” [1]
A mobile e-Commerce transaction is an e-Commerce transaction that is initiated and performed using a mobile device, such as a mobile phone or a laptop, over a wireless access network or a short-range wireless link.
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E-commerce transaction was defined by OECD [1] from business and statistical perspective. The parties above can be individual customers (C), companies (B), or governments (A). One speaks accordingly about B2C, B2A, B2B, C2C e-Commerce and e-Commerce transactions. Historically, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) was the...
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Annex 4. The OECD definitions of Internet and E-commerce transactions. Available at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/16/2771174.pdf
Tygar D. Atomicity in electronic commerce, Chapter 33. In Internet Besieged, P. Denning, D. Denning (eds.). ACM Press and Addison Wesley, USA, 1997, pp. 389– 405.
Veijalainen J., Terziyan V., and Tirri H. Transaction management for M-commerce at a mobile terminal. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications., 5(3):229–245, 2006.
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Veijalainen, J. (2009). e-Commerce Transactions. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_730
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