Overview
Web technologies play a critical role in today's web-enabled e-Business. A key to success in applying the web-based technologies to the real world problems lies in understanding the architectural issues and developing the appropriate methodologies and tools for designing e-Business systems. The main purpose of Architectural Issues of Web-Enabled Electronic Business therefore, is to provide e-Business professionals a holistic perspective of this field that covers a wide range of topics.
Synopsis
Addresses the challenges posed by building large web sites for doing business over the web, and suggests several approaches to designing efficient architectures. The 26 chapters explore web-based distributed data mining, web search and data retrieval, web information system development, scalability and performance, intelligent portal architecture, and marketing. Topics include transaction management in a web-integrated network environment, customization of Internet multimedia information systems design through user modeling, an agent-based architecture for product selection, and an architecture for authentication and authorization of mobile agents. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR