The topic of Internet Economics is around for some years now. The technology applied to communications and in the domain of electronic businesses has not dramatically changed during recent years, though. However, a number of important extensions of functionality has been developed and further problems have been encountered. Internet communications in general, offering services and selling bandwidth or even QoS-enabled services, all of these tasks are still demanding, but generic and effcient solutions for heterogeneous technologies within today's Internet have not been found yet. Still, or even in contrast to those demands, Internet technology acts as a means to implement new applications, covering inelastic and multimedia applications. Therefore, a review of several challenges and weaknesses of this process of development is required to judge its suitability. This first edition of the seminar "Internet Economics I" deals with the integration of In- ternet technology and new ways to support and do business. It covers in five sections the following topics of non-repudiation of electronic transactions, security in e-commerce, incentives for peer-to-peer networks, wireless LANs, and the future of mobile services.     «

The topic of Internet Economics is around for some years now. The technology applied to communications and in the domain of electronic businesses has not dramatically changed during recent years, though. However, a number of important extensions of functionality has been developed and further problems have been encountered. Internet communications in general, offering services and selling bandwidth or even QoS-enabled services, all of these tasks are still demanding, but generic and effcient s...    »