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The health service ecosystem is a sub domain of the service ecosystem, which is an ecological view of the health service domain. Due to the importance and the speciality of health services, service consumers have rigorous requirements regarding the efficiency of health service search engines. However, as most health service consumers do not have enough domain knowledge, their service queries are sometimes...
This article explores ecological imbalance in digital ecology environment. With the dramatic growth of digital information in the world, organizations, in an age of information ecology can easily be affected by the consequences of information ecological imbalance. This imbalance may be triggered by maladjustment of the circulation in the system, by the abnormal flowing of some kinds of information,...
Global warming is one of the most important and challenging problems being faced this century, capable of triggering a series of events that will have serious consequences on the different ecosystems on planet Earth. In order to manage such consequences, we need dedicated actions for resilience. In such a scenario, the process of adaptation to climate change plays an important part. This is achieved...
Creating, modifying and/or maintaining a software system is a time consuming and complex process. The digital ecosystem is a new concept introduced into the computer science and information systems world. New and already existing systems need to be integrated into these wider digital ecosystems. Here, it is crucial for the developer to understand the systems that need to be integrated to ensure that...
Digital Ecosystem is defined as ldquoan open, loosely coupled, domain clustered, demand-driven, self-organizing and agent-based environment, in which each species is proactive and responsive for its own benefit and profitrdquo [1]. Species in the Digital Ecosystem can play dual roles, which are service requester (client) service provider (server). A service provider enters the Digital Ecosystem by...
Crawlers are software which can traverse the Internet and retrieve Webpages by hyperlinks. In the face of the inundant spam Websites, traditional Web crawlers cannot function well to solve this problem. Semantic focused crawlers utilize semantic web technologies to analyze the semantics of hyperlinks and Web documents. This paper briefly reviews the recent studies on one category of semantic focused...
The research with regards to digital ecosystems emerged in the end of last century, and has developed in this century. Due to its immaturity, some fields within it are deemed to be blank. This research proposes to fill one of the blanks in the digital ecosystems research. By analyzing the issues in the current research, we propose to develop a semantic search engine, with the purpose of querying services...
Worldwide ICT education (information communication technology) is facing a major challenge of declining student enrollments; battling to keep its curriculum relevant and up-to-date while trying to meet the high demand of ICT skilled workers in domain, such as resources, health, government and commerce. This paper, documenting research in progress, discusses these issues and challenges in ICT education...
Three-party key establishment protocol can help three participants to establish a shared secret key through interactions via public channels. In this paper, a novel three-party key agreement protocol is proposed. The protocol is based on non-commutative monoids in mathematics. It is a generic construction and one-time protocol per key establishment.
Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and cooperation leads to new organisational forms and scenarios within the digital ecosystem space that require technological support. Convergence refers to the move towards concurrently coupled telecommunications...
Todaypsilas e-businesses rely heavily on trust and reputation systems. These systems are key indicators for businesses performance. Businesses that interact with each other for their business needs form a digital business ecosystem (DBE). Members of DBE need to know the trust and reputation value of each other before the start of business interactions. The feedback mechanism is needed so that members...
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