Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce (Hardcover)

by Donal O'Mahony (Author), Michael A. Peirce (Author), Hitesh Tewari (Author), O'Mahony Donal (Author) "The idea of paying for goods and services electronically is not a new one..." (more)
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Product Description
Generally society has been moving towards electronic payment systems since the 1970s, but it is only the arrival of the Internet and its vertiginous growth, that has made possible the recent advances in this area.

About the Author
Donal O'Mahony is a senior lecturer in computer science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and the head of a research group specializing in networking, telecommunications, and data security. He also has consulted extensively for private industry and government. Dr. O'Mahony holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Trinity College. Michael Peirce is a research student at Trinity College, where he recently received his Ph.D. in computer science on the topic of multi-party micropayments for mobile communications. Hitesh Tewari is a lecturer in computer science at Trinity College and works as part of the networks and telecommunications research group on projects in network security and mobile communications.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 356 pages
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers; 2 Sub edition (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580532683
• ISBN-13: 978-1580532686
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #941,249 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To the point, October 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Electronic Payment Systems (Artech House Computer Science Library) (Hardcover)

For those who are seeking the alternative topologies in Electronic Payment systems this book is a very good starting point with some very good references as well. Gives a good insight on the mechanisms as well. One downside is that too much emphasis is put on maths for security related subject compared to the general aim and tone of the book.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, but..., November 15, 2003

By	Kris Shankar - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you want a great overview of electronic payments, the various schemes in operation and how they work, this is the book for you. I downloaded the eBook version of this book to do some research on electronic payments and it proved invaluable. I have read only the following sections in detail: overview, security techniques and micropayments, but I would say the book is worth the price just for the lucidity, structured presentation and breadth of coverage of these chapters. The chapters on credit cards and other forms of ePayments look just as well written based on my cursory look at them. The language is precise and non-obfuscatory, readable by managers and technical folks alike, while providing a depth of detail adequate to design your own systems based on these principles, unlike your typical technical book! However, the eBook version has certain extremely annoying featires which compel me to give this book only 3 stars as opposed to the 5 stars it deserves: you can't print even a single page, you can download it only to 3 computers (which is a pain if you have a PC and a laptop at home, and a work PC, and if you then want to refer to it when on a business trip or vacation from another PC), and you can't copy and paste even a word from this document. Draconian copyright measures, if you consider that you can do all these things with a paper version of the book. This is exactly the kind of arrogance on the part of eBook publishers that's going to kill the industry, because I will never buy an eBook again unless I have no choice. If you aren't in a tearing hurry, I'd say get the paper version.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really exhaustive, up-to-date primer on the systems for elec, June 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Electronic Payment Systems (Artech House Computer Science Library) (Hardcover)

The only missing dimension in the book is the strategic/business aspects. The rest is brilliant. In particular, great description of the emerging payment mechanisms (ecash, digicash, cybercash, millicent...)