ABSTRACT
This chapter brings us to closure on this book Web Data Manage ment and Electronic Commerce. We have discussed various supporting technologies for web data management, described the concepts and techniques for web data management, and provided an overview of some of the trends in electronic commerce. As stated throughout this book, web data management is an integration of multiple technologies, and has applications in e-commerce. This chapter summarizes the contents of this book and then provides an overview of the challenges and directions in web data management and in e-commerce. We also give the reader some suggestions on where to go from here.
