Electronic Commerce Systems Research Articles

Foreign Experience of Using Electronic Commerce Systems in Joint Stock Companies

Joint-stock firms' worldwide e-commerce growth is crucial to national economies, and Uzbekistan's strategic emphasis on the digital economy is expected to spur significant expansion. The country's e-commerce participation is still mostly domestic, despite advantageous conditions like internet availability and government assistance. This highlights a substantial knowledge gap in utilizing overseas markets. This study investigated international e-commerce models and their implementation in Uzbekistan using both theoretical and empirical approaches. The findings imply that although e-commerce infrastructure is growing, progress is being hindered by infrastructural and regulatory issues. Through improved digital trade, addressing these problems could promote global competitiveness and support sustainable economic development, both of which are in line with the "Digital Uzbekistan 2030" vision.

ICTS as Tools for Local Development: Santa Elena Province; A View from the SDGs

Introduction: Currently, there are social problems that affect humanity, one of them is the gap between knowledge of ICTs and their application in social networks for access to information in a timely manner in order to contribute to personal and professional development and contribution to the development of the community. The State provides opportunities based on programs, projects and strategies to direct aid and educate the population in the digital age. Objective: The research objective is to determine the way in which ICTs are used as tools for local - community development through the qualitative-quantitative approach to strengthen the development of the Amantes de Sumpa neighborhood in the Province of Santa Elena. Method: The methodological process applied in this topic is descriptive and deductive, as well as the types of documentaries, field; as well as the population that will be stratified in the neighborhood, which was investigated through the survey and the interview with the neighborhood leader. The reliability of the Likert-type instrument was also carried out by calculating Cronbach's Alpha, which was 0.833. Results and conclusions: The people participating in the research stated that it is important to develop care agreements, promote technological services, since access will allow improving the productive activities of entrepreneurs in the Amantes de Sumpa neighborhood, and promote an electronic commerce system that can be installed from public or community institutions in such a way that this serves for the permanent dissemination of the economic activities carried out by the neighborhood sector.

Impacts of Social Media Advertising on Purchase Intention and Customer Loyalty in E-Commerce Systems

The emergence of new technologies has had a noteworthy impact on communication systems, leading to the importance of conducting research in this area due to the significant influence of social media. Marketing operators must implement the necessary infrastructure to identify and fulfill customers' expectations, considering the advantages and the increasing number of users in social networks. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating the purchase intention of electronic commerce systems, taking into account the impact of social media advertising and customer loyalty. The paper aims to enhance purchase intention in e-commerce through social media advertising and examine influential factors that improve online shopping performance, including social media advertising's effectiveness on customer purchase behavior and brand loyalty. The paper develops a theoretical framework of nine hypotheses to evaluate purchase intention in e-commerce systems, with a focus on the effect of social media advertising on brand loyalty and purchase intention. To validate the proposed model and test the research hypotheses, we make use of information obtained from an international company located in China. The results demonstrate the positive effect of pleasurable motivation on purchase intention, with a significance level of 3.776 and a path coefficient of 0.279. Moreover, an investigation of the positive effect of customer loyalty on the recommended advertisement confirms the hypotheses, with a significance of 32.815 and a path coefficient of 0.788.

Factors that Influence the Utilization of Digital Transactions among the Micro-Business Enterprises in General Santos City

This study investigated the factors that influence the utilization of digital transactions among micro-business enterprises in General Santos City. The application of e-commerce services has rapidly increased in response to the pandemic. Moving toward business recovery, different types of literature have stressed how important the shift to digital technology is for businesses to thrive in the new normal. This study sought to investigate the factors that influence users' preferences for switching from traditional cash-based transactions to electronic commerce systems. The Push-Pull-Mooring Framework was employed as the research model. A descriptive and correlational analysis was conducted using data from 65 retail and 35 wholesale micro-business enterprises in General Santos City. The results indicated that the respondents’ intention to utilize digital transactions is significantly influenced by one push factor which is the transaction inconvenience, also by pull factors which include economic benefit, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and critical mass, and by mooring factors including trust, perceived security and privacy, and switching costs. To achieve and sustain recovery, assistance, and support for relatively young and small companies might be prioritized in terms of utilizing e-commerce services as well as setting strong policies towards giving aid, especially to micro-business enterprises in developing digital infrastructures and complementing with these strategies is strengthening data privacy and security for these e-commerce services. This study concluded that the advantages that can be obtained from the utilization of e-commerce services, as well as external factors, impose significance on businesses.

An Empirical Analysis of Trust, Perceived Benefit, and Purchase Intention in C2C Electronic Commerce in China

With the popularity and development of the internet, China's consumer-to-consumer (C2C) electronic commerce (EC) system is favored by consumers. Therefore, understanding the relationship among consumers' trust, perceived benefits (PBs), and purchase intentions (PIs) is of great significance for studying this system. This article proposes the hypothesis of the interaction among the three and designs a questionnaire to explain the application of trust, PB, and PI in China's C2C EC system. The relationship between the sample structure and the variables is analyzed using reliability, validity, correlation, and regression analysis (RA). The experimental analysis results show that the questionnaire's reliability and validity values are higher than 0.8 and 0.75, respectively, indicating that the questionnaire design is qualified, and the data are valid. The rationality of the hypothesis proposed here is verified through correlation analysis and RA. This indicates a significant mutual influence relationship among trust, PB, and PI.

Optimization design of electronic commerce system based on the basic principles of software engineering

Based on the basic principles of software engineering, this paper optimizes the design of e-commerce system from the aspects of demand analysis, system design, coding, implementation, testing and maintenance. Specifically, this paper adopts the object-oriented software development method, using the UML modeling tools to model the system, adopted the MVC architecture mode to realize the stratification of the system, using the front-end technology such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript to realize the user interface design of the system, combined with the back-end technology such as Java, JSP, the Servlet system. Through the system test and the use of code quality control tools, the system is accepted, and the maintenance of the system is planned and designed. Finally, this paper realizes an easy-to-use, stable, safe and efficient e-commerce system.

Semantic web oriented personalized electronic commerce product suggestion system

With the studies on semantic web technology, the interest in this technology has increased over time. Today, the importance of data has increased to be used for purposes such as optimization, increasing user experience and improving. This increase has brought with it the need for readability of data. At this point, the semantic web has increased the readability of information by putting large data sets in a format that machines can interpret like humans. In this study, an electronic commerce system has been developed that can suggest related products to users by making use of the literature review in which semantic web technology is used. In the system development phase, firstly accepted ontology creation methods were examined, and a method was selected to create the needed ontology. Within the scope of the study, first, the capabilities of the semantic web to meet the technological needs are introduced. Then the semantic web and the technologies used in it are explained. In addition, the tools needed to develop applications with the semantic web are explained. Application development steps are explained in the study. Information about the successfully developed system is given and thus the use of semantic web is exemplified. Finally, suggestions were shared to improve the designed system. Due to the rapid developments in electronic commerce in recent years, it can be stated that this study is important.

The impact of the digital divide of the Russian Federation regions on the e-commerce expansion

Subject. This article discusses the prospects for the development of electronic commerce in Russia. Objectives. The article aims to identify and systematize the factors that determine the development of digitalization, as well as compare federal districts in terms of the degree of involvement of the population in the electronic commerce system. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of logical, comparative, and statistical analyses. Results. The article finds that the leaders in the development of electronic commerce are regions that are characterized by a high level of digitalization of the economy, namely the Central, Northwestern, and Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal Districts. Conclusions. The digital competence of the Russian population is the main factor determining the development of electronic commerce.

Can Cryptocurrency Be a Payment Method in a Developing Economy?

This study sought to understand the factors driving the consumer adoption of a cryptocurrency, in particular Bitcoin, as an electronic payment (e-payment) system for electronic commerce (e-commerce) transactions within a developing economy such as South Africa. The advent of e-commerce has led to increased online transactions facilitated by e-payment systems, which can fall prey to opportunistic hackers. Cryptocurrencies have been pegged as a solution to this security issue. However, little is currently known around consumer propensity to use a cryptocurrency as an e-payment option, particularly within a developing economy. The investigated factors that could influence user adoption were based on literature and tested on a South African representative sample of 814 respondents. Of the factors identified from literature, the study found that “perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use,” “self-efficacy,” “awareness,” “trust,” and “security” have the most significant influence on South African consumers adopting a cryptocurrency as an e-payment system.

Activity characteristics and perspective development directions of electronic trade platforms in Azerbaijan

Improving e-commerce platforms and determining their prospective development trends is a global problem. This article indicates the relevance of expanding online transactions with the application of industry 4.0 platform technologies in business activities. The sharp increase in demand for e-commerce due to the pandemic has made it one of the key trends of the modern era. Modern electronic commercial systems and technologies are required to be applied in the organization of business activities. The work shows the significance of forming the necessary infrastructure for e-commerce in the country and solving the problem of integration into the global digital ecosystems. The characteristics of electronic commerce technologies in ensuring economic development are determined. The stages of its life cycle are displayed based on the results of the analysis of many research works related to electronic commerce. Aspects of the impact of the application of modern electronic commerce technologies and tools on economic development in commercial activities are explored. The article also highlights the main procedures of online purchase process in the main electronic trading systems on the Internet. It classifies the electronic commerce system according to various characteristics, and studies the aspects of its implementation in Azerbaijan. It proposes the methodology of comparative evaluation of the development rate of electronic commerce technologies and develops systems and relevant indices. In the end, the results of the final scores on the weighting coefficients of the indicators characterizing B2B electronic commerce are introduced. With the application of the latest information and communication technologies, recommendations are proposed on the operational characteristics and prospective development trends of e-commerce platforms in the Azerbaijani segment of the Internet.

Investigating the effect of perceived risk factors and COVID-19 pandemic situation on online shopping behavior among Malaysians

This study investigates the effect of perceived risks, i.e., financial risk, product risk, and convenience risk, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic situation on online shopping behavior among Malaysians. This study uses convenience sampling techniques and comprises 185 respondents who have experience buying online. In addition, the study setting was non-contrived, and data was gathered using a closed-ended questionnaire through an online survey. Descriptive analysis was conducted using SPSS version 25.0 software and SmartPLS version 3.2.8 to test the proposed hypotheses. This study found that perceived risk factors such as financial, product, and convenience risk did not influence online shopping behavior. In contrast, the COVID-19 pandemic positively influences online shopping behavior among consumers. It showed a new development in the theory of online shopping behavior, where users continue to make purchases despite being aware that there may be various risks due to the spread of COVID-19. The role of the ministry, business owners, and consumer associations needs to be given attention to form a sustainable electronic commerce system and protect the rights of consumers. This research can help consumers understand their rights.

Modeling of Security Fault-Tolerant Requirements for Secure Systems

Security services can keep a system from security breaches for a while, but they are ultimately compromised as the system is deployed and used. This paper describes the modeling of security fault-tolerant (SFT) requirements, which can tolerate the failures of security services for systems. SFT requirements are specified together with the security services requirements so that they tolerate breaches of the security services. This paper addresses an approach for specifying and analyzing SFT requirements using a meta-model. Threats to systems are identified in the requirements specification and analysis phases, and SFT measures against the threats are described with security services. An electronic commerce system is selected to illustrate the approach.

A Survey on: E-Commerce Data Analysis and Security Platform in the Era of Bigdata

With the rapid development of e-commerce and mobile communication, e-commerce platform has been widely used in various industries. How much e-commerce stores, whether it can guarantee the security of transaction information, whether it can analyze and study structured and unstructured data, and whether it can guarantee the security of stored data are all the key factors we need to consider. In this paper, the data and e-commerce security together, and to analyze the security system of e-commerce and discuss the prevention of hidden security policy. When the emergence of e-commerce big data technology can effectively solve the problems existing in e-commerce security, the Hadoop structure is introduced through Apache Hadoop and the Hadoop product Yarn is analyzed with emphasis. From the perspective of electronic security data, the hidden dangers of e-commerce can be effectively analyzed, and the security system of e-commerce can be effectively improved. This article starts with the analysis of the existing electronic commerce system, summarizes its characteristics, and analyzes and solves its existing problems. Firstly, the characteristics of the relational database My Structured Query Language (MySQL) and the distributed database HBase are analyzed, their respective advantages and disadvantages are summarized, and the advantages and disadvantages of each are taken into account when storing data. My SQL is used to store structured business data in the system, while HBase is used to store unstructured data such as pictures. These two storage mechanisms together constitute a data storage subsystem. Secondly, considering the large amount of data in the e-commerce system and the complex calculation of the data mining algorithm, this paper uses Map Reduce to realize the parallelization of the data mining algorithm and builds a Hadoop-based commodity recommendation subsystem on this basis. We use JavaEE technology to design a full-featured web mall system. Finally, based on the impact of cloud computing, mobile e-commerce is analyzed, including relevant theories, service mode, architecture, core technology, and the application in e-commerce, which can realize e-commerce precision marketing, find the optimal path of logistics, and take effective security measures to avoid transaction risks. This method can avoid the disadvantages of the traditional e-commerce, where large-scale data cannot be processed in a timely manner, realize the value of mining data behind, and realize the precision marketing of e-commerce enterprises.

Comparing Traditional Commerce to E-Commerce and IoT and the Understanding of Trust for the Consumer

The scenario has changed during the last few years. Introducing an “e” in front of another function in the organization appears to be the golden formula for a never-ending meteoric rise. The development of E-commerce is due to this huge transformation. It is an Internet-based commerce system that allows you to purchase and sell things electronically. It is the technology’s most important application. It lowers the transaction expenses associated with buying. It benefits the globalization. It also cuts minimizing the amount of hours spent buying. Commerce is defined as an activity of buying and selling without the use of any communications technology aid. Despite all of the aforementioned characteristics of E-commerce, conventional commerce in India has not loosened its grip on the market. Consumers choose between the two types of commerce based on their preferences. However, the question arises as to which of the two methods of purchase is more trusted by the majority of buyers. To understand customer confidence in the two types of commerce, this study, entitled “Comparative Study of E-Commerce and Commerce Related to Customer Trust,” provides information about the economic situation in which we are tracking ourselves. Provide. While establishing trust in an electronic commerce system is more troublesome than it is in friendly buying, it is significantly more basic for success. Trust is a drawn-out asset that is hard to earn and simple to lose. The aim of this work is to propose a novel conceptual framework for consumer purchasing trust that emphasizes the stages involved in establishing online customer trust. The interactions between consumers, suppliers, and referees that must occur prior to moving from one stage to the next from one stage of trust to the next this model can assist us in better understanding cybertrust. Provide techniques for business owners to gain customer trust, and point them in the right direction in the future fact checking in this effective technological field.

NAGA: multi-blockchain based decentralized platform architecture for cryptocurrency payment

Paying for electronic commerce products with cryptocurrencies is an increasingly popular method. However, the situations where a seller expects one specific cryptocurrency as a payment while a buyer only possesses another, inevitably create inconvenience to the buyer, which may lead to cancellation of purchase. In this paper, we propose a light-weighted software architecture of a payment system called NAGA platform that works with a number of crypto blockchain networks to support cross-cryptocurrency payments where buyers can pay in one currency, and the seller automatically receives another of his/her choice. This minimizes the complexity and inconvenience of the buyer, leading to an increase in sales and revenues of the electronic commerce system. With the built-in crypto exchange, crosscryptocurrency payment can be processed with real-time exchange rates that enables both buyers and sellers to receive cryptocurrency of their preferred choices.

Challenges limiting small and medium scale enterprises from adopting electronic commerce in Tanzania

The paper describes the challenges of SMEs in the adoption of e-commerce technology in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam city-Ilala Municipal was chosen as a case study because SMEs found in Dar es Salaam are more likely to be using e-commerce since Dar es Salaam is among regions where most SMEs are connected to the internet are found in Tanzania. The researcher collected data from 30 SMEs found in Ilala Municipality. The data collected were then subjected to analysis using Quantitative methods and content analysis. Frequency and percentage were used in data presentation, where questions on technical challenges, Technological challenges, and management attitudes were answered. The results indicate that there are Technical, technological challenges, and management reasons that limit SMEs from adopting e-commerce. It was concluded that building any kind of electronic commerce system requires a strategy, that is the vision of the goal to achieve, a clear rationale of the business value, and a picture of the process to achieve such a goal and avoid a common pitfall. Keywords: Challenges; E-Commerce; SMEs; Tanzania.

Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Electronic-Commerce System

The Internet opens up a new horizon for us and has a tremendous impact on our daily lives, including shopping. The Internet-based electronic commerce (e-commerce) has given the business and shopping concept a new dimension that makes buying and selling necessary goods and products more convenient and accessible. There is no doubt that e-commerce will play a prominent role in the eventual success of future businesses, and the efficient architecture of the e-commerce system will play a significant role in that success. In this paper, we present a design and implementation of a web-based e-commerce system called campus accessories that focuses on the four fundamental business issues of attracting, interacting, acting, and reacting. The system presented here focuses on the business-to-customer e-commerce system to provide a more efficient approach to handling online shopping. Because of this application, university students can make an easy approach for buying and selling necessary products.

THE EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE AS A DETERMINANT PERFORMANCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE. A CASE OF ELGEYO MARAKWET COUNTY, KENYA

Purpose: This study effect of financial perspective as a determinant of Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises. The objectives of the study are; to determine the effects of financial perspective on performance, to evaluate the effects of customer perspective on performance and to assess the contribution of the internal business perspective on performance. The study was informed by Balance Score Card theory and a survey research design was used. 
 Methodology: A population of two thousand small and medium enterprise business persons in Elgeyo Marakwet County was assessed. A sample size of 95 from the target population was used. The study employed a stratified sampling technique for the sub-county and then simple random sampling. Data was analyzed by multiple regressions. 
 Results: The study found out that the County Government did not support to SMEs in giving loans and these retarded their sales growth in my SME continuously. This was therefore an implication that there was no revenue growth, no increased market share in my SME and little increased return on investment in my SME. Correlation results revealed a significant and positive relationship. However much that financial perspective was a problem , the SMEs in Elgeyo Marakwet County had tied to increased product quality ,customers were satisfied on how staff respond to their grievances in my SME .Finding from objective three found to be less significant to the performance SMEs, as the county working environment was not aware of their conducive for SME, it was found out that Electronic commerce system were not used by SME in the County and neither did achieve any social economic goals and that SME did not increased process capacity. It was found out that HO1: on relationship between financial perspective and performance. The results rejected the null hypothesis. (β = 0.017, p < 0.847). HO2: on relationship between customer perspective and performance and the hypothesis was therefore not supported, therefore the hypothesis result was rejected (β = 0.299, p< 0.009). HO3: There is no significant relationship between internal business perspective and performance. The results accepted the null hypothesis. (β = -0.076, p< 0.500).
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: The study made the following recommendations: - There need for the county government and microfinance institutions to support SMEs financial, that is by offering them cheap, affordable and low interest loan to the resident. There is need for increased product quality in my SME, maintain customer loyalty, increased customer satisfaction pertaining to staff-: customer relationship in my SME and on time deliveries to customers are valued by my enterprise. On internal business perspective on performance in Small and Medium Enterprises. County government should improve good working environment which conducive for SME, there is need for adoption. The study suggests that other study be done to analyze, future research could verify the dimensions developed in this study and to enhance the generalizability of the research findings, future inquiries could employee more diversified samples across genders and diverse international customer environments.

Reputation Detection for Information Diffusion in Social Network Systems

Reputation detection in traditional distributed systems (e.g., electronic commerce systems and peer‐to‐peer systems) relies heavily on the factor of interaction reputation, which can be derived from direct interactions between agents through bidirectional relationships. However, in the current information diffusion in social network systems (SNS) (e.g., Twitter), the characteristic of the unidirectional relationship between agents and the decay property of diffusion will result in lacking direct interactions; therefore, interaction reputations will be difficult to be obtained by agents in a distributed manner. To solve this problem, a novel distributed reputation detection model following the pattern “from path to individual” (FPTI) is proposed, which can provide a new reputation factor as an alternative to interaction reputation in such environments. The main idea is that the positive (or negative) observation of an information diffusion process increases (or decreases) the belief of the corresponding diffusion path, which further increases (or decreases) the reputation of each involved agent. Thus, the reputation of a target agent can be assessed by the superimposition of reputations of multiple paths on which this agent has participated in past information diffusion processes. Furthermore, being aware of agent’s limited capacity for reputation detection in SNS, we then propose the enhanced FPTI model (eFPTI), which simplifies the detection source to reduce detection costs and achieve the approximate performance as FPTI. Theoretical analyses and experimental evaluations validate the efficiency and effectiveness of our models and also show several properties of the models, for example, the robustness for dynamic environments.

Development of client service as a basis for birth of the electronic commerce system

The purpose of this study is to study the development of customer service as the basis for the emergence of an e-commerce system. Research objectives: to study the aspects of the origin of customer service, to analyse the development of marketplaces abroad and in Russia, to structure expenses when selling goods through the marketplace. The methodology of marketplaces research is based on a deep and thorough study of the needs and moods of customers. The informatization of modern society makes it necessary to adapt business processes to the needs of the consumer, who, due to various factors of the 21st century, are guided by the Internet space, which does not provide the client with a full range of information about the product through the senses. Accordingly, it is necessary to create a level of service that embodies the consumer’s trust in buying goods online.