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Electronic commerce (or e-commerce for short) is a new way of conducting, managing, and executing business using computer and telecommunication networks. There are two main paradigms in ecommerce, namely, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce and businessto- consumer (B2C) e-commerce. In this paper, we outline the various issues involved in these two types of e-commerce and suggest some ways in which soft computing concepts can play a role.

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    Raghu Krishnapuram, Manoj Kumar, Jayanta Basak & Vivek Jain

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  2. Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Japan

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Krishnapuram, R., Kumar, M., Basak, J., Jain, V. (2002). Soft Computing in E-Commerce. In: Pal, N.R., Sugeno, M. (eds) Advances in Soft Computing — AFSS 2002. AFSS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45631-7_61

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