Electronic Commerce technologies have been studied widely in the field
of Economics and Informatics. In recent years, there are multiple
aspects of researches in electronic commerce including supply chain
model, Internet auctions, Internet volume discounts, electronic bank and
stock trading, and several others. The increase of Electronic Commerce
research activities can be observed in a variety of the fields. The aim
of this book is to encourage activities in this field, and to bring
researchers with an interest in Electronic Commerce. This book is edited
from some aspects of e-commerce researches including theoretical
mechanism design of trading based on auctions, allocation mechanism
based on negotiation among multi-agent, case-study and analysis of
e-trading, data engineering issues in e-commerce, and so on. The reason
why the many aspects are included is to show the outline of the newest
research result of e-commerce research.