This book/CD-ROM package presents material from an October 2002 symposium on the reliability, scalability, and security of e-commerce systems. Some topics are search techniques for multi-attribute bilateral negotiation strategies, e-commerce credit and debit card protocols, security issues on server-side credit-based electronic payment systems, and a dynamic and interoperable protocol for Web services. Other topics presented include avoiding moral hazards in organizational forecasting, database scalability through efficient data distribution in e-commerce environments, and optimizing return- set size for requirements satisfaction and cognitive load. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |