Electronic commerce at the dawn of the third millennium -- Building e-commerce from the ground up -- Principles of digitally mediated replenishment of goods -- Electronic trade scenario for global supply chains -- Promoting electronic commerce in the defense industry -- Diffusion of electronic commerce in Australia -- Planning e-strategies for New Zealand firms -- Electronic commerce contracting for open EDI -- EDI and small/medium enterprises -- Economics of EDI investments -- Internet business models for government agencies -- A model of internet commerce adoption -- E-retailing -- Consumer motivations for commercial web site use -- The retail payments system and internet commerce -- Internet-enabled smart card agent environment and applications -- Supporting innovative competitive strategies as mass customization ... -- Electronic commerce based on software agent -- A mobile agent computation model for best buy searching -- The design and architecture of a secure agent transport protocol for e-commerce -- The evolving future of agent-based electronic commerce -- The use of the internet by terrorists ... The law vis-a-vis electronic commerce -- The challenge of the law to electronic commerce.