Principles of automated theorem proving
Principles of automated theorem proving
Atomicity in electronic commerce
PODC '96 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Management of heterogeneous and autonomous database systems
The Byzantine Generals Problem
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Atomicity versus Anonymity: Distributed Transactions for Electronic Commerce
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Formal aspects of electronic commerce: research issues and challenges
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Systems for computer-mediated digital commerce
A resilient access control scheme for secure electronic transactions
WOEC'98 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 3
Towards a framework for handling disputes in payment systems
WOEC'98 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 3
A protocol for secure transactions
WOEC'96 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Proceedings of the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 2
Agora: a minimal distributed protocol for electronic commerce
WOEC'96 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Proceedings of the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 2
NetBill security and transaction protocol
WOEC'95 Proceedings of the 1st conference on USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 1
iKP: a family of secure electronic payment protocols
WOEC'95 Proceedings of the 1st conference on USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 1
Modeling of user acceptance of consumer e-commerce website
WISE'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
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An E-commerce transaction is a means to conduct particular commercial activities using the global digital E-commerce infrastructure. We concentrate here on business to customer (B-to-C) E-commerce transactions. These transactions are based on protocols offered by the global infrastructure, primarily the Internet. Using electronic means to do business can greatly improve the efficiency of the business transactions. It, however, poses some problems that were rarely considered to be important before. One class of problems is caused by the behavior of untrusted participants. For reasons such as dishonesty, disputes may arise. In the general case, when a dispute arises an untrustworthy participant may have an arbitrary behavior, and may or may not cooperate with the dispute handling process. In this paper, we study one class of disputes where the participants have some limited willingness to cooperate, and the causes or demands by the initiators are directly related to the actions in the transactions in which the disputes arise. To this end, we first establish a correctness criterion by extending the existing notion of transactional atomicity to a broader context where the behavior of untrustworthy players is taken into consideration. We then introduce the concept of a dispute, and the difficulties to handle it caused by abnormal behavior of players. We introduce a strategy, benefit set, based on which a solution is built to circumvent that behavior. Due to the special features of E-commerce transactions, we propose a two-tier arbiter structure as the main mechanism in our solution.