The objective of the project is to enable users to be able to access multiple, distributed, and potentially heterogeneous catalogs in a uniform and transparent manner. Therefore the management of quality of service and the adaptation of the application within such system and network environments poses new challenges. This project addresses these issues. The general security issues on the Internet have a bearing on electronic commerce. In addition, there are specific security issues that arise due to the particular characteristics of this application.
Any software application requires a nice and simple user interface.
In electronic commerce, navigating through the plethora of electronic catalogs of products, selecting items of interest and interacting in real-time with a sales person, if desired, poses new design challenges. This project investigates the design and integration in the major project of a user interface employing distributed virtual environment concepts for navigating the virtual electronic commerce mall, web-based telecollaboration tools and also using appropriate intelligent agent technologies. It has also been recognized that accurate traffic models are important for the performance evaluation of the various system components, especially when one considers the issue of scalability. This project uses the deployed electronic commerce application as a testbed to collect data and conduct measurements on application behavior.