{"title":"An Adaptive Shill Bidding Agent","authors":"Jarrod Trevathan, A. McCabe, W. Read","doi":"10.5220/0002110600050014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0002110600050014","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a software bidding agent that inserts fake bids on the seller's behalf to inflate an auction's price. This behaviour is referred to as shill bidding. Shill bidding is strictly prohibited by online auctioneers, as it defrauds unsuspecting buyers by forcing them to pay more for the item. The malicious bidding agent was constructed to aid in developing shill detection techniques. We have previously documented a simple shill bidding agent that incrementally increases the auction price until it reaches the desired profit target, or it becomes too risky to continue bidding. This paper presents an adaptive shill bidding agent which when used over a series of auctions with substitutable items, can revise its strategy based on bidding behaviour in past auctions. The adaptive agent applies a novel prediction technique referred to as the Extremum Consistency (EC) algorithm, to determine the optimal price to aspire for. The EC algorithm has successfully been used in handwritten signature verification for determining the maximum and minimum values in an input stream. The ability of the agent to inflate the price has been tested in a simulated marketplace and experimental results are presented.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126187290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Reputation Model for Online Collaborative ERP Projects","authors":"Ioannis Ignatiadis, J. Briggs, A. Svirskas","doi":"10.5220/0002107803490352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0002107803490352","url":null,"abstract":"When companies engage in online collaborations, they may need to form alliances with partners that they have not worked with before, but who should be well placed in meeting end customer demands. Online reputation management systems play an important role in this case in choosing the right partners to collaborate with. Those systems facilitate the recording and dissemination of opinions of actors in an online community, with regards to other members of that community. The purpose of this paper is to report the research in progress carried out as part of the European Union (EU) co-funded project “PANDA”, which examines amongst others potential reputation models that could be applied in online collaborations of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) coming together to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at an end customer.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128627722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SAT: A Web-Based Interactive Advisor for Investor-Ready Business Plans","authors":"D. Jannach, Uffe Bundgaard-Joergensen","doi":"10.5220/0002109500990106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0002109500990106","url":null,"abstract":"The business plan is one of the essential tools for companies to attract investors and raise venture capital. Getting a business plan \"investor ready\" in that context means that it has to be professionally prepared such that it answers all questions of potential investors. This, however, requires in-depth knowledge of a typical investor's expectations and viewpoints, a type of knowledge which in particular first-time entrepreneurs or small companies do not dispose of. As a consequence, significant amounts of consulting hours are required to get the business plan ready to be presented to investors. The goal of the SAT project presented in this paper is to provide an in-depth business plan advisory service over the Web. While current approaches in that area rely on static fill-out forms or checklists, the SAT tool is based on personalized interactive dialogs, knowledge-based input analysis and feedback generation, as well as on detailed financial calculations. Within the paper, we thus show how knowledge-based approaches can serve as a technological foundation for such next-generation electronic services and how the corresponding development and maintenance efforts can be minimized. The paper gives an overview on the general knowledge-based architecture of the system, discusses the integrated graphical modelling environment, and finally reports on experiences gained from the practical use of the tool.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128338568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chin E. Lin, Chih-Ching Li, Shuei-Mu Lin, L. Bi, Li-Xin Xu
{"title":"A Mobile Electronic Toll Collection","authors":"Chin E. Lin, Chih-Ching Li, Shuei-Mu Lin, L. Bi, Li-Xin Xu","doi":"10.5220/0001424601340142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001424601340142","url":null,"abstract":"When mobile communication has been vastly used, its particular characteristic is appreciated for the idea of mobile e-commerce (Me-commerce) in any electronic toll collection (ETC) applications. This paper establishes a new method of ETC using mobile cell phones integrating mobile communication with radio frequency (RF) communication adopting microprocessor control. A simple ETC system architecture and protocol for transactions among vehicles to toll stations to complete payment is presented. The proposed ETC contains e-transaction mechanism in hardware and software. A software flow through Internet is developed to link from toll station roadside units to car units. A car unit for vehicle, a pair of roadside units, and an e-Center are established. Data flow and interaction protocol are created. The proposed ETC system can be applied to toll different systems on freeways, bridges, parking lots for un-manned operation. The proposed system is designed with hardware circuit using microprocessors to match with software system. The preliminary test results on system performance verifies as a good solution for ETC applications. Some feasibility analysis is made with test support. The function capability for Me-commerce is also demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"128 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131239332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Data Replication Techniques to Maintain Data Consistency in Supply Chain Applications","authors":"G. Feuerlicht, Richard White, Glen MacLarty","doi":"10.5220/0001429102090214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001429102090214","url":null,"abstract":"Supply chain applications typically involve sharing of large amounts of information across a number of partner organizations. Examples of supply chain applications are common in manufacturing, healthcare and global trade. Such applications can involve a large number of partners in different locations with various levels of connectivity, ranging from high-speed Internet to unreliable and slow dial-up connections. Maintaining data consistency in supply chain applications is an essential requirement as the loss of data consistency results in poor quality and unreliable information. Current supply chain applications mostly rely on EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) or similar electronic messaging standards to ship data between partner organizations. In general, little attention is paid to ensuring that data remains consistent as it is propagated and updated along the supply chain. In this paper we fIrst discuss the requirements for data consistency in supply chain applications and then briefly describe a data consistency management framework based on data replication. We use Freight Forwarding and Customs Brokerage (FFCB) applications examples to illustrate our discussion. Abstract:","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122247916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An e-Commerce Application in China","authors":"Yong Xu, Chin E. Lin","doi":"10.5220/0001424501770181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001424501770181","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new stock-jobbing system named Stock-Master system which based on the SMS(Short Message System) of PSTN. For the real-time Stock Exchange, this system expands the system and the protocol of PSTN(Public Switched Telephone Network) SMS. It adds the trade module of CTSI(Chinese Terminal Service Interface) server, operation trade gateway and professional CP(Content Provider) system. This system adopts the terminal ID(Identification)identification, encrypted 3DES, and the exclusive connection serial number. All these techniques are used to ensure the security of the stock exchange. This paper describes the frame, the physical topology structure, the function and the security design of this system, and analyses its advantages and disadvantages in detailed.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115852706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Approach for the Trust Calculation in Social Networks","authors":"Mehrdad Nojoumian, Timothy Lethbridge","doi":"10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129899309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Amoretti, M. Bisi, Maria Chiara Laghi, F. Zanichelli, G. Conte
{"title":"Reputation Management Service for Peer-To-Peer Enterprise Architectures","authors":"M. Amoretti, M. Bisi, Maria Chiara Laghi, F. Zanichelli, G. Conte","doi":"10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130497230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Automated Service Trading","authors":"Manuel Resinas, Pablo Fernández, R. Corchuelo","doi":"10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115534728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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