The e -Commerce Group is a research laboratory within the Accounting and Finance Department of the University of Macedonia, headed by Assistant Professor Nicolaos Protogeros.
The research areas of the group lie in five/six main fields:
- Business and Accounting Information Systems: Advanced approaches and modern methodologies for business process optimization through the adaptation of Accounting Information Systems.
- E-Commerce Principles and Technologies: Virtual enterprises, e-transactions and e-commerce software agents.
- End User Development: Development and optimization of development tools intended for use by non programmers, based on Human Computer Interaction principles.
- Web Engineering: Web application design and development for Rich Internet Applications.
- Cloud Computing for the End Users: Research and development of Cloud Service technologies (SaaS, PaaS) oriented to end-user development of cloud-based software.
- Business Process Analysis and System Modeling