AI-Driven E-Commerce Systems

This repository contains the LaTeX source for the book AI-Driven E-Commerce Systems: Architecture, Data, Intelligence, and Operations. The manuscript covers platform strategy, enterprise architecture, data foundations, AI and ML applications, ERP integration, governance, and a final capstone architecture.

The current cover metadata identifies the book as authored by Haitham A. El-Ghareeb, Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt.

License and Reuse

The content of this repository is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This means readers may:

• read, download, copy, print, and share the material;
• reuse and adapt the material for educational and other non-commercial purposes;
• redistribute excerpts or derived educational material, provided attribution is preserved.

This also means users must:

• credit Haitham A. El-Ghareeb as the author;
• reference this repository when reusing the content;
• link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license;
• indicate whether changes were made;
• not use the repository content for commercial purposes without separate permission.

Recommended attribution:

Haitham A. El-Ghareeb, AI-Driven E-Commerce Systems: Architecture, Data, Intelligence, and Operations, GitHub repository: https://github.com/helghareeb/e-Commerce

See LICENSE for the repository license text and CITATION.cff for citation metadata.

Project Nature

The manuscript is written as a continuous book rather than a slide deck or disconnected weekly notes. Its scope combines:

• digital commerce business models and platform thinking;
• enterprise architecture and system integration;
• Odoo-centered ERP/CRM/SCM process integration;
• data engineering, experimentation, and analytics foundations;
• recommendation, pricing, fraud, LLM support, and MLOps;
• security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI.

Repository Structure

• src/main.tex: main LaTeX entry point for the book.
• src/chapters/: individual chapter source files.
• src/backmatter/: unnumbered end-of-book reference and assessment chapters.
• src/main.pdf: compiled output PDF.
• src/references_2.bib: bibliography database used by the manuscript.
• NEXT-STEPS.md: handoff notes and continuation guidance between sessions.

Current Manuscript Status

The repository currently contains:

• an unnumbered preface;
• a 14-chapter continuous manuscript;
• appendices;
• unnumbered back-matter chapters for acronyms and sample essay questions;
• bibliography support;
• a compiled PDF in src/main.pdf.

The chapter sequence covers:

1. Foundations of modern e-commerce systems
2. Digital platforms and business models
3. Data foundations, experimentation, and metrics
4. Enterprise architecture for e-commerce
5. Enterprise integration patterns
6. ERP/CRM/SCM integration with Odoo as reference
7. Classical recommenders and learning-to-rank
8. Deep recommenders and retrieval systems
9. Pricing and promotion analytics
10. Fraud, risk, and trust and safety
11. LLM-based customer service and support automation
12. MLOps and DataOps for e-commerce
13. Security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI
14. Capstone enterprise-grade AI e-commerce architecture

The current back matter also includes:

• Acronyms and Key Abbreviations
• Sample Essay Questions and Model Answers

Build

Compile from the src/ directory:

pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex
bibtex main
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex

Use the full sequence above when bibliography entries change or new citations are added. If only text changes are made without bibliography updates, two pdflatex passes are usually enough.

Notes

• The manuscript now uses src/references_2.bib with BibTeX and plainnat for citations and references.
• The front matter has been converted to a proper preface, so Chapter 1 is the first numbered chapter in the book.
• The chapter titles no longer carry (Week ...) suffixes; the chapter numbers already provide sequencing.
• Several long chapter titles use shortened running-head forms in LaTeX to keep page headers clean while preserving full chapter titles in the text.
• Generated LaTeX build intermediates are ignored; source files and selected compiled PDFs remain in the repository.