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2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04)
A Protocol for "Combination-Web-Shopping"
San Diego, California
July 06-July 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2098-7
Mona Marathe, University of Pune
Hemalatha Diwakar, University of Pune

"Combination-Shopping" wherein individuals seek to buy matched and coordinated combinations possibly from different commercial enterprises, is a common occurrence in every day life. With e-commerce gaining ground there is a need to provide a solution to a new category of problems in E-Commerce, which addresses the need of "single buyer of multiple items from multiple sellers", or multiple Businesses transacting simultaneously with a single Customer (mB2C).

"Combination-Web-Shopping" deals with the problem of purchasing a set of items, comprising a combination from a set of distinct web shops in one transaction. As a solution the Combination-Web-Shopping protocol is proposed, which is implemented as a Message-based Centralized Workflow Application residing at a mediator. The complete workflow specification is also described.

Index Terms:
E-Commerce, Multiple Businesses to Single Customer, Web-Shopping, Message-Based Centralized Workflow System, Atomicity in E-Commerce
Citation:
Mona Marathe, Hemalatha Diwakar, "A Protocol for "Combination-Web-Shopping"," cec, pp.103-110, 2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04), 2004
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