Research and development in e-business on the Internet

The paper describes research and development projects in the field of system support for e-business on the Internet (EBI). The term EBI refers to a synergistic interaction of a number of disciplines, like electronic multimedia, electronic collaboration, electronic commerce, and appropriate business knowledge and intelligence infrastructure. There are several major infrastructure bottlenecks for efficient use of EBI. Some of the bottlenecks are in the hardware and others are in the software domain.