This monograph constitutes a major contribution to the development of secure electronic commerce. The book is based on the European R&D project SEMPER - Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe which aims at securing electronic commerce as a whole by developing a technical security framework realized as a middleware. The first part of this monograph presents an introduction to electronic commerce in general and provides an overview of the proposed solutions; this part is accessible to everybody seriously interested in the topic and does not require a technical background except some basic familiarity with the Internet. The second part presents fundamentally new scientific and engineering results and sets the scene for future R&D activities in securing electronic commerce.

这本专著对安全电子商务的发展做出了重大贡献。这本书是基于欧洲研发项目SEMPER-欧洲安全电子市场，其目的是通过开发一个技术安全框架，实现作为一个中间件的电子商务作为一个整体的安全。本专著的第一部分介绍了电子商务的概况，并概述了提出的解决方案；这一部分是所有对这个主题感兴趣的人都可以访问的，除了对互联网的一些基本熟悉之外，不需要技术背景。第二部分介绍了最新的科学和工程成果，并为未来的电子商务研发活动奠定了基础。