In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic
business and education on the Internet, appropriate system support is
needed as a vital condition for maximization of both short-term and
long-term profits. Electronic Business and Education: Recent Advances
in Internet Infrastructures discusses current research topics in the
domain of system support for e-business and e-education on the Internet,
and stresses the synergistic interaction of these two components.
Attention is given to both scientific and engineering issues.
Electronic Business and Education: Recent Advances in Internet
Infrastructures is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level
course and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry,
particularly in the area of e-business and e-education on the
Internet.
`There is no longer any question that the Internet and electronic
communication are the major new tools for collaborative advances in
the creation of new knowledge and in future learning.' Excerpt from
Foreword by Robert C. Richardson, Nobel Laureate 1996, Cornell
University, USA