[...]... Published in the United States of America by Idea Group Publishing (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.) 7 01 E Chocolate Avenue, Suite 200 Hershey PA 17 033 Tel: 717 −533−8845 Fax: 717 −533−86 61 E−mail: cust@idea−group.com Web site: http://www.idea−group.com and in the United Kingdom by 1 Architectural Issues of Web−Enabled Electronic Business Idea Group Publishing (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.) 3 Henrietta... Internet Delivery of Distributed Data Mining Services: Architectures, Issues and Prospects 4 01 Chapter 8: Data Mining for Web−Enabled Electronic Business Applications 4 01 Chapter 9: Intelligent Web Search Through Adaptive Learning From Relevance Feedback 4 01 Chapter 10 : World Wide Web Search Engines 4 01 Chapter 11 : Retrieval of Multimedia Data on the Web: An Architectural. .. business / Nan Si Shi, V.K Murthy p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 1 5 914 0−049−X (hardcover) −− ISBN 1 5 914 0−0 81 3 (ebook) 1 Computer network architectures 2 Business −Data processing 3 Electronic information resources I Murthy, V K., 19 63−II Title TK 510 5.52 N35 2002 658.8'4−−dc 21 2002 014 185 British Cataloguing−in−Publication Data A Cataloguing−in Publication record for this book... Issues of Web−Enabled Electronic Business editors of the ACM IT Journal on Education *** Hussein Abdel−Wahab received a Ph.D in 19 76 and an M.S in 19 73 both from the University of Waterloo in Computer Communications and a B.S in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 19 69 Currently, he is a full−time Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor... high level of user convenience in terms of input and navigation Many optimists see m business as a technology that is just one step before it becomes an everyday occurence 18 Section I: Globalization of E Business Chapters List Chapter 1: Issues in the Globalization of Electronic Commerce Chapter 2: Electronic Architectures for Bridging the Global Digital Divide: A Comparative Assessment of E Business. .. their borders Currently (11 /2000) over 60% of the worlds online population resides outside of the United States (IW, 2000): United States 36.2% United Kingdom 4.8% South Korea 3.9% France 2.4% Japan 7.2% China 4.2% Italy 3 .1% Australia 2.2% Germany 5 .1% Canada 4.0% Brazil 2.8% Russia 1. 8% 20 Key Issues Taiwan 1. 7% Netherlands 1. 4% Spain 1. 3% Today the majority of the Fortunes 10 0s Web sites are available... (Giebel, 19 99) Wal−Mart (a $16 5 billion U.S company) has a global work force of more than 1 million and runs more than 10 00 of its 3406 retail outlets outside of the U.S.; yet its Web site (Wal−mart.com) is only for Americans (Sawhney, 2000) Todays average Web site gets 30% of its traffic from foreign visitors, and only 1% of small and midsize American businesses export overseas (Grossman, 2000) Key Issues. .. services and facilitates enhanced understanding of the architectural models, the operational semantics and the underlying technologies Chapter 8, Data Mining For Web−Enabled Electronic Business Applications by Richi Nayak presents data mining concepts and issues that are associated with Web−enabled e business applications such as: (1) analysis of the pattern of user behaviour that reflects the acceptability... 44 20 7379 3 313 Web site: http://www.eurospan.co.uk Copyright © 2003 by Idea Group Inc All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging−in−Publication Data Shi, Nan Si, 19 53− Architectural issues of Web−enabled electronic business / Nan... Corporation 3 Architectural Issues of Web−Enabled Electronic Business in Minneapolis for six years in several positions including Manager of Applications Development He has also been an independent consultant and software developer in several industries including: Medicine, Transportation/Logistics, Finance, Law, and Entertainment K Se1çuk Candan is a tenure−track Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer . Table of Contents Architectural Issues of Web−Enabled Electronic Business 1 Preface 12 Readership 12 Organization 12 Overview 13 Section I: Globalization of E Business 19 Chapters List 19 . for Web−Enabled Electronic Business Applications 14 1 Abstract 14 1 Introduction 14 1 What Is Data Mining? 14 1 Various Data Mining Tasks and Techniques 14 2 Data Mining in Web−Enabled E Business. Searches 17 3 Others 17 4 Major Search Engines 17 4 Summary 17 6 Future Directions 17 6 References 17 7 Chapter 11 : Retrieval of Multimedia Data on the Web: An Architectural Framework 18 1 Abstract 18 1