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E-Commerce Transactions

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Synonyms

EC transactions; Electronic commerce transactions

Definition

An electronic transaction is the sale or purchase of goods or services, whether between businesses, households, individuals, governments, and other public or private organizations, conducted over computer mediated networks. The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and the ultimate delivery of the good or service may be conducted on or off-line. [1]

A mobile e-Commerce transaction is an e-Commerce transaction that is initiated and performed using a mobile device, such as a smart phone, tablet, or laptop, over a wireless access network or a short-range wireless link.

Key Points

E-commerce transaction was defined by OECD [1] from business and statistical perspective. The parties above can be individual customers (C), companies (B), or governments (A). One speaks accordingly about B2C, B2A, B2B, C2C e-Commerce and e-Commerce transactions. Historically, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) was...

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  1. Annex 4. The OECD definitions of Internet and E-commerce transactions. Available at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/16/2771174.pdf

  2. Tygar D. Atomicity in electronic commerce, chapter 33. In: Denning P, Denning D, editors. Internet besieged. New York: ACM Press/Addison Wesley; 1997. p. 389–405.

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  3. Veijalainen J, Terziyan V, Tirri H. Transaction management for M-commerce at a mobile terminal. Electron Commer Res Appl. 2006;5(3):229–45.

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  1. University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland

    Jari Veijalainen

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Panos K. Chrysanthis

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Veijalainen, J. (2018). E-Commerce Transactions. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_730

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