Numerous solutions for secure electronic commerce are available today, but some of their options are too complex to be used properly by casual users, e.g., anonymity or fair-exchange capabilities within payments. On the other hand, novel types of user interfaces have arisen mainly in entertainment-oriented domains, e.g., games and multiuser ``virtual worlds,'' that attract millions of nonprofessional users. We claim that integrating secure electronic-commerce techniques into new user-interface technologies would dramatically increase e-business in the Internet. In this paper we provide an approach to that integration based on the concept of business relationship properties.
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Int'l J. Electronic Markets 8(3) (1998) http://www.electronicmarkets.org/netacademy/publications.nsf/all_pk/1075
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By: Jose L. Abad-Peiro and Patrick Steiger
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