Special Issue on Innovation of Information Technologies in E-Commerce: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract

The economy of a country is dependent on its business organizations. These business organizations work on the perfect business strategy to get a prime position using the concepts of information technology. In this context, e-commerce is the driving position to contribute online shopping, online food services, e-healthcare, e-care, e-solutions, etc. E-commerce covers all aspects of the system design and research in systems framework, computing techniques, quality of design, software and system testing assurance, security and its emerging applications. However, in spite of all these, e-commerce is still in a growing phase which includes planning, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance or support with the help of the IT sector. In this special issue we aim to explore the complexity and challenges in adopting the e-commerce infrastructure via the involvement of informatics. The empirical studies and conceptual contributions will enhance the understanding of problems to design and implement e-commerce infrastructure and applications via using information technology as per the expectations and requirements of end users.