Electronic Market Support for the Tourism Industry: Requirements and Architectures

Recent advancements of global communications networks allow individuals to carry out transactions - for example on the tourism market - such as information gathering or reservations easily and efficiently. Additionally, permanent changes of the economic environment require on-line information service and their underlying infrastructure to provide a high degree of adaptability in order yo reflect demands of such service providers and their clients adequately this contribution presents innovative software support for a Common Open Service Market (COSM) as a decentralized information service infrastructure. The corresponding COSM support system allows autonomous clients and service providers to adapt flexibly to an Electronic Market System and to let demand and supply depend on the price mechanism in amore flexible form as it is given in existing centralized information service systems.

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