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{"title":"Using Semantics to Discover Web Services Based on Partial Data: An Update of Previous Research","authors":"Catarina Ferreira Da Silva, Paulo E. Melo, P. Cunha, Pedro Milheiro, P. Ghodous","doi":"10.4018/ijsita.2013100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsita.2013100103","url":null,"abstract":"The authors developed an algorithm and a proof-of-concept tool to help business analysts search a pool of hundreds or thousands of services to find the closest ones to their needs when they are composing business processes, even when an exact match does not exist. The authors achieve this by semantically annotating the services with properties from an ontology, while, traditionally, only the concepts are used. This enables them to generate finer-grained partial semantic mappings between a query and the signature of the services published in a registry, despite potentially different parameter cardinalities and types. Their searches return a ranked list of those services available in the registry that most closely match the query specification. The analyst can then study the hits to see which of the suggested alternatives is more convenient. Such an approach is fundamental to effectively manage reuse in large service-oriented deployments, where the number of services in the registry becomes too voluminous for browsing individually or even syntactic searches that rely on some degree of memorization by the analyst.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123905515","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":"About Space-Time and More","authors":"D. Ciulin","doi":"10.4018/ijsita.2013070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsita.2013070101","url":null,"abstract":"Intuitively, one can think that the time may be assimilated with the space. One of the big differences between the time and the space is the fact that actually travels into the past and/or future are only possible on movies. In science, Newton had introduced the notion of an absolute and universal time but Einstein told us that time is relative, is strongly connected with the space and depends on the observing point. In the theory of relativity, the gravitational field is assimilated with the 'space curvature' and has as independent variable the 'space-time'. To make a mathematical separation between the time and space, imaginary time had been considered. As living creatures must conceive mentally their future actions in space, may one consider this 'imaginary time' as a kind of 'mirror of these future actions'? The paper presents mathematical models for 1D to more than 3D space based mainly on trigonometric, hyperbolic, elliptic and ultra-elliptic functions. All these functions have only the 'complex time' as independent variable. They may represent a transformation of the space for example during a given time interval and/or equivalently, the 'dynamic of this transformation'. The time interval for a given transformation depends evidently on the used technology then its 'speed' and as results, some locally parameters of the space and/or objects may be modified. The time may then be considered as equivalent to the 'order' in which a given transformation is realized. As application, extension of the bandwidth compression loop for 3D system may allow to a locally modification of some parameters of the objects and/or of the local gravitational field. Associated with a good and convenient technology, all these are of strategic importance. Applications may be found in strategic forecast, interplanetary telecommunications and treks. The presented tools may be used for modeling the fields and also insure their more comprehensive understanding.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133062589","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":"On-Demand Online Real Estate Information System","authors":"E. Cherif","doi":"10.4018/ijsita.2013070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsita.2013070102","url":null,"abstract":"Internet is helping change the structure of the residential real estate industry by offering new services in the system aiming to enhance the facilities provided to the user. This would enhance the demand chain management. The first purpose of this paper is to illustrate these changes by specifying the functional components of the demand chain management system for online real estate. The author uses a formal specification language to model the interaction between the online real estate management system, the new entities and the other actors. The proposed online real estate management system includes advanced modules that can be bundled together, creating differentiation and enhancing the value chain. The second objective is to propose a simplified implementation architecture for an integrated demand and supply chain management system for online real estate services. The author chose an open source Customer Relationship Management system as a platform to manage some of the online real estate modules. Other value-added modules are integrated from third-party providers using their open interfaces.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115081957","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":"Customer Relationship Management and Interface Redesign: A Study on the Website Design on the eBay Websites on Cultural Perspectives","authors":"Kevin K. W. Ho, E. See-To","doi":"10.4018/ijsita.2013070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsita.2013070103","url":null,"abstract":"This study is focused on the cross-cultural issues in the post-adoption phases of customer relationship management CRM for an international electronic marketplace, which operates in more than 30 countries. In particular, the authors focus on how the electronic marketplace modifies its interface redesign for addressing the different tastes of users from different cultural backgrounds. The authors hope this study can address to how cultural and language differences affect the interface redesign of CRM, which is part of the enterprise system, in the multinational and global context through a qualitative study.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"46 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123520699","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":"Looking at IT and Business Alignment from the Stone Age of Information Technology","authors":"H. Haq, Caroline Howard, Kathleen M. Hargiss","doi":"10.4018/ijsita.2013070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsita.2013070104","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses seminal and contemporary literature from 1980s till 2012. It captures issues of processes, alignment and trails patches of the issues for every tri-decade. Tri-decade analysis will be organized by researching issues from beginning of a decade, moving along to mid-decade leading towards the closing of a decade. This approach will be done for three decades in a similar manner. After the collection of issues, the issues will be analyzed and put in prospective for practitioner and researchers to consider an implementation or continue research to build on the topics. Furthermore, the article will touch on why alignment still hasn't concurred with Business and IT, and a prospective solution will be presented with a framework solution, with a further research section.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127750876","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":"CSF Approach for IT Strategic Planning","authors":"N. Baporikar","doi":"10.4018/jsita.2013040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2013040103","url":null,"abstract":"Although the purpose of strategic planning is straightforward-to outline where an organization wants to go and how it's going to get there-its nature is complex and dynamic. Two techniques, the critical success factor CSF method and future scenario planning, can augment strategic planning efforts by illuminating an organization's present situation and potential future. This paper explores the value of enhancing typical strategic planning techniques with the CSF method and presents an integrated framework for helping organizations understand the broad range of interrelated elements that influence strategy development for Information Technology IT. Critical success factors are defined as the handful of key areas where an organization must perform well on a consistent basis to achieve its mission. CSFs can be derived through a document review, analysis of the goals, objectives of key management personnel and interviews with individuals about their specific domain and the barriers they encounter in achieving their goals and objectives. The paper synthesizes documented theory and research in strategic planning and CSFs and provides insights and lessons regarding the value and limitations of the integrated strategic planning framework in the context of IT. Through a method of in-depth literature review and contextual analysis, the paper incorporates suggestions for future work which include: exploring the use of IT in unit-level planning and organizational strategic planning, creating an integrated strategic planning process and connecting CSFs directly to one another in the monitoring stages to support the integrated framework, for an holistic strategic planning process.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132379358","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":"From Entrepreneur to Big Player: A Case Study of a Software Company in Taiwan","authors":"R. Shaw, Sheng-Pao Shih, Ta-Yu Fu, Chia-Wen Tsai","doi":"10.4018/jsita.2013040102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2013040102","url":null,"abstract":"The software industry faces drastic changes in technology and business operations. The research structure of this study is based on the business model for software industries proposed by Rajala in 2003. The researcher employed an ex post facto research design to conduct a case study of the Galaxy Software Service Co., a company that is representative of the software industry in Taiwan. The main research goal of this study is to explore how this particular company developed into a large software company in the Taiwanese software sector, which is characterized by a prevalence of small-and medium-sized businesses, over a period of 25 years. This study employs a case study design and relies on in-depth participation and interviews to acquire a complete data set of the company's internal operations. The evolution of the business model from the company's inception until the present day has been divided into four phases: the entrepreneur phase, the growth phase, the stable phase, and the innovative breakthrough phase. The company developed into a major player in the software industry for 3 reasons: it has always insisted on a product differentiation strategy based on the sole reliance on software products, it started out as a software products dealer and gradually developed its own research and development capability, and it built a large-scale project management capability and received CMMI certification. These factors make the company stand out from other System Integrated businesses in the Taiwanese software sector offering both hardware and software products.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128411945","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 CASE Tool Evaluation and Selection Methodology","authors":"Aniruddha Biswas, Raveesh Tandon, Anurika Vaish","doi":"10.4018/jsita.2013040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2013040104","url":null,"abstract":"CASE Tools have been considered as the most advanced technique to derive quality products. The cost associated with CASE tools is generally high due to their steep learning curves and is a matter of concern for software engineering houses. This makes it imperative that the right set of CASE tools are evaluated and selected for a particular set of tasks. This research paper proposes a methodology for the purpose of comparison and selection of various CASE tools available in the market. The proposed methodology allows its users to easily identify and select the best CASE tool suited to their purpose. The paper proposes a matrix based model, mapped across parameters and their attributes that produces an optimised score card that supports the decision making process.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133471595","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":"Critical Risk Path Method: A Risk and Contingency-Driven Model for Construction Procurement in Complex and Dynamic Projects","authors":"Chi Iromuanya, Kathleen M. Hargiss, Caroline Howard","doi":"10.4018/jsita.2013040105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2013040105","url":null,"abstract":"Existing approaches to risk management in construction procurement primarily dwell on strategies designed for commonly identifiable risk factors in typical project environments. Commonly identifiable risk factors would include too early or late material delivery-a condition typically ameliorated by implementing a Just In Time JIT plan; inferior construction materials typically mitigated by employing trusted vendors; or ineffective contractors primarily avoided by the use of experienced contractors. The purpose of this paper is to present a coherent model for procurement risk management for construction and infrastructure development projects within the context of dynamic project environments-complex, or chaotic. For the purpose of this study, a critical risk path activity is one in which a delay of activity completion not only leads to project delay, but does so in a manner that may be fatal to project or at best, far greater than the actual delay. The study incorporates observations and theory with practical application for improving initiatives by emergency infrastructure development response organizations such as FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency and USACE US Army Corps of Engineers in the United States, the NEMA National Emergency Management Agency in Nigeria, or ANDMA Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority etc. This study presents risk response plans aimed at improving the potential occurrence of positive risk aspects while reducing, or eliminating the same for negative risk occurrences. This study explored material, equipment, and skilled labor procurement strategies related to project risk management from the perspectives of scheduling, cost, and quality-three factors often referred to as the triple project constraints. It identified gaps within specific national and multinational organizations' approaches, and provided detailed recommendations for process improvements from the procurement management perspective to ensure the potential for successful project outcomes in unstable project conditions.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125577315","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":"Different Perspectives on KM 2.0 New Practices and Web 2.0 Tools at Renault-Nissan Alliance Since 2000","authors":"Nabyla Daidj","doi":"10.4018/jsita.2013040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2013040101","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this chapter was to understand how a \"hybrid organization\" two automobile manufacturers Renault and Nissan within a strategic alliance uses social networking and Web 2.0 tools to collaborate not only inside traditional organizational boundaries and within the alliance structure but also across geographical frontiers. Nissan has gradually lost its historic status as keiretsu as a result of its strategic alliance with the Renault. This alliance has had numerous consequences for the organizational structure of Nissan, even though both companies have maintained their identity by maintaining the two brands internationally. KM practices have evolved since the beginning of the strategic alliance. Two phases can be considered. During the first three years of the alliance, the two car manufacturers relied mainly on their own specific KM practices and processes. The second phase started in 2004 with the development of KM 2.0 and web 2.0 tools. The adoption of these tools by Renault has led to increased collaboration between the two manufacturers. The third period 2011-2013 is characterised by the development of collaborative tools and practices during which the Renault-Nissan alliance may enter a new phase of maturity.","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115455445","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}