Infrastructure for Electronic Business on the Internet

Design is an art form in which the designer selects from a myriad of alternatives to bring an "optimum" choice to a user. In many complex of "optimum" is difficult to define. Indeed, the users systems the notion themselves will not agree, so the "best" system is simply the one in which the designer and the user have a congruent viewpoint. Compounding the design problem are tradeoffs that span a variety of technologies and user requirements. The electronic business system is a classically complex system whose tradeoff criteria and user views are constantly changing with rapidly developing underlying technology. Professor Milutinovic has chosen this area for his capstone contribution to the computer systems design. This book completes his trilogy on design issue in computer systems. His first work, "Surviving the Design of a 200 MHz RISC Microprocessor" (1997) focused on the tradeoffs and design issues within a processor. His second work, "Surviving the Design of Microprocessor and Multiprocessor Systems" (2000) considers the design issues involved with assembling a number of processors into a coherent system. Finally, this book generalizes the system design problem to electronic commerce on the Internet, a global system of immense consequence.

Klappentext

The rapidly growing field of Electronic Business on the Internet (EBI) includes a number of subfields, such as electronic commerce, electronic multimedia, workflow technologies, and collaboration technologies. The term electronic business implies a synergistic interaction between a number of different fields with the purpose of maximizing not only the short term profit, but the long term profit as well. In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed. Infrastructure for Electronic Business on the Internet discusses the topic of system support and its main bottlenecks, stressing explanations that link the newly emerging problems with those found in the general computer architecture field. Attention is dedicated to both hardware and software issues and their symbiotic interactions. Infrastructure for Electronic Business on the Internet is an excellent reference for researchers and practitioners and may also be used as a text for advanced courses in on the topic.

Inhalt
Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. ADSL. 3. Software Tools for EBI. 4. Internet Automation. 5. Software Agents. 6. Proxy Caching. 7. Workflow Technologies. 8. Collaboration Technologies. 9. An Overview of the On-Going Research. 10. Conclusion. References. Appendixes. A. e-conomy. B. MobNet. C. Obelix. D. Socratenon. Index.