The book contains recent results and developments in the following areas:
E-Government:
E-Government Models and Processes,
E-Governance,
Service Provisioning.
E-Business:
Infrastructures and Marketplaces,
M-Commerce,
Purchase and Payment.
E-Commerce:
Value Chain Management,
E-Business Architectures and Processes,
E-Business Models.
Winfried Lamersdorf is full professor and head of the Distributed Systems Group at the Informatics Department of Hamburg University, Germany. Volker Tschammer is head of the ECCO Competence Centre at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, Germany. Stéphane Amarger is Manager of the Sophia Antipolis Laboratory, Corporate, Technology Group, Hitachi Europe SAS in Valbonne, France.