An August 2008 symposium brought together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to exchange ideas on electronic commerce and security. Themes include intelligent computing, web applications, networks, information processing, machine learning, mobile commerce, applied cryptography, information security, and risk analysis. Application areas discussed include business process integration, electronic commerce applications, electronic payment, innovative e-business models, enterprise integration applications, information hiding and watermarking, intelligent systems, and international finance. Some specific topics examined are classification of urban logistics infrastructure, electronic time stamping, application of streaming media technology in electronic commerce, and a test case reduction technique for BPEL-based testing. Other subjects covered include a regression-based coordination for concurrent negotiation, analysis of electronic securities trading using a hypercube model, and biometrics authentical systems on open networks. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
