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To keep an overview on complex e-commerce collaborations several models are used to describe them. When models overlap in describing a collaboration, the overlapping information should not contradict. Models are of different nature and maintained by different people. Therefore, keeping model-overlap contradiction-free is challenging. In this paper we propose a novel approach for maintaining models...
Agent-based computing environments provide the capability to establish an enterprise of autonomous agents that collaborate and share information on common interests. Discovery of new data can alert users to changes in the information environment of importance to them. The goal of this research is to define an agent environment that models an organization's tacit knowledge. This document proposes a...
In the context of a research and development department of an enterprise, researchers regularly access, review, and use large amounts of literature, yet none of the exiting tools and solutions provide the wide range of functionalities required to properly manage these resources. Indeed, bibliography management systems manage the references and citations but fail to help researchers handle and locate...
It is the responsibility of an e-commerce provider to provision resources to ensure that the performance of the services provided by an e-commerce application is acceptable. A quantitative estimate of the performance expected from the site, obtained from the expected workload imposed on the application, may allow the provider to make informed decisions with respect to the right level of resources...
In this paper, we report our experience in the implementation of a module for creating user profiles of Web visitors by using Zones, Weights and Actions. The module is part of Gugubarra 2.0, a tool for better understanding and management of communities of registered Web visitors, currently being developed by the database group at the Computer Science Institute of the Goethe University in Frankfurt...
Trust is a critical issue in e-commerce and e-service environments. Some applications (such as eBay) have introduced various trust management mechanisms to provide valuable information to buyers prior to placing orders and making payments. While trust has been actively studied in the research community, some malicious sellers and fraudulent transactions still widely exist. A typical attack is to entice...
Managing business collaboration is about coordinating the flow of information among organizations and linking their business processes into a cohesive whole. A consistent outcome is expected within and among involving organization. However, inadequate coordination onthe autonomous, heterogeneous, and long-lasting cross-organizational business processes can lead to inconsistent execution in loosely-coupled...
For companies acting on a global scale, the necessity to monitor and analyze news channels and consumer-generated media on the Web, such as weblogs and n news-groups, is steadily increasing. In particular the identification of novel trends and upcoming issues, as well as their dynamic evolution over time, is of utter importance to corporate communications and market analysts. Automated machine learning...
Reverse pricing as a special form of dynamic pricing has become a growing interest in e-commerce. It gives buyers an active role: The price of a transaction is not given by the supplier, but is mainly determined by the buyer's bid. This paper extends the coverage of current reverse pricing models to sourcing. The reason is that sourcing strategies, such as global, local, and multiple sourcing, greatly...
Online buyer coalition formation problem is an application of e-commerce and distributed agent technology. So far, most works in this topic are social utility based approaches, which assume the agents' utilities to be transferable and publicly known. However, such assumptions are not valid in many software agents applications where agents beliefs are private, and stability is often a more important...
Electronic commerce has provided retailers with effective instruments to deploy one-to-one marketing over the internet. While the increasing use of sensors, RFID tags and other technologies enables the deployment of one-to-one marketing also in stationary retail stores, ini-tial experiments in realizing personalization in this setting have shown that customers' acceptance is low, as services require...
A main challenge in mobile commerce is to make it possible for users to manage their transaction histories from both online e-commerce transactions and in-person transactions. Such histories are typically useful to build credit or to establish trust based on past transactions. In this paper we propose an approach to manage electronic receipts on cellular devices by assuring their secure and privacy-preserving...
Prediction markets are a promising approach for predicting uncertain future events and developments. These markets will work well if they are efficient and in efficient markets, one does not expect arbitrage opportunities to be persistent. This paper therefore studies whether pure arbitrage opportunities existed in a sports prediction market. Moreover, market liquidity can become an issue in prediction...
Grid technology denotes a computing paradigm in which computing resources are shared across geographical and administrative boundaries. Market-based mechanisms are deemed promising to provide a better fit to grids' strategic and dynamic nature than classic technical schedulers. In this paper, we present a deterministic heuristic that achieves the distinct trade-off between scalability by approximation...
Today's development and provision of commercially used Web services has shifted from providing static and predefined functionality to highly configurable services that can be dynamically combined by customers. This new form of composed services called service mashups integrate functionality of multiple sub-services from decentralized providers. Consequently this leads to a high configuration complexity...
While grid market schedulers have recently received a lot of attention and have been accepted not only in economic but also in purely computer science areas as well, technical grid schedulers are being modified to support advance reservation of resources, too. This prompts questions on how to model grid markets and how to handle grid resource reservation in a reasonable economic fashion. This paper...
RFID systems compliant to the widely-used standard EPC class 1 generation 2 lack effective security mechanisms. We show that passwords used to protect critical functionality can be obtained by attackers with only moderate effort. Since more capable systems are not likely to replace the current standard in the medium term, it is crucial to embed the deployment of RFID technology into IT-ecosystems...
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