{"title":"An integrated visual framework for the human-Web interface","authors":"Kang Zhang, M. Huang, Kei-Chun Li","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021259","url":null,"abstract":"The design of Web sites has been largely ad hoc, with little concern about the effectiveness of navigation and maintenance. This paper presents a general framework with a human-Web interface that supports Web design through visual programming and reverse Web engineering through visualization. The paper describes the framework in the context of a Web tool, known as HWIT which has been developed for a pilot study.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121417228","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":"DisCSPs: tools for generic and efficient multi-agents negotiations","authors":"Y. Hamadi","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021266","url":null,"abstract":"The wider connectivity of WWW architectures is opening new rooms for agents technology. This results in increasing inter-operability, optimization and negotiation in inter e-business processes. We give here a short review of some efficient algorithms used in the framework of distributed constraint satisfaction (DisCSP). This formalism allows generic negotiations in multi-agents systems. We present two DisCSPs algorithms. The first one defines coordination rules between agents. The second one uses these rules to perform a systematic exploration of a shared search space.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132891083","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":"SmartClick: An enabler for human-centered wireless Web service","authors":"Seong-ryong Kang, H. In, Wei Zhao","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021258","url":null,"abstract":"Recently wireless Web services have been rapidly growing as a new way of information service. As the wireless Internet access grows, so do e-commerce opportunities through the wireless Web services. Wireless Internet access has inherent limitations since most handheld devices have much less display and means of operations. This imposes a particular problem to the design of mobile information services in terms of information and service navigation. In this paper, a novel approach called SmartClick is presented to achieve user-centered wireless Web services. SmartClick enables users to explicitly express their intentions or preferences with minimal clicks (user interaction). SmartClick with a middleware support provides users a way to get the desired Web contents more efficiently and easily.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133283981","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}
A. Pan, Paula Montoto, A. Molano, M. Álvarez, J. Raposo, Vicente Orjales, Á. Viña
{"title":"Mediator systems in E-commerce applications","authors":"A. Pan, Paula Montoto, A. Molano, M. Álvarez, J. Raposo, Vicente Orjales, Á. Viña","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021263","url":null,"abstract":"The world today is characterised by the proliferation of information sources available through media such as the WWW, databases, semi-structured files, etc. But, very often, this information is scattered, heterogeneous and weakly structured (semi-structured data). E-commerce is, by nature, one field in which this phenomena is specially strong. This paper overviews a mediator system for the construction of structured and semi-structured data integration applications. This system has been used in the construction of various applications on the Internet and in corporate environments, which are being used in real operational environments. Some conclusions arising from the experience gained from the use of such applications are also put forward.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130334524","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}
Min-Hua Shi, De-ren Chen, Liang-Jie Zhang, Rong-Guo Wang
{"title":"MQML-Message Queuing Markup Language","authors":"Min-Hua Shi, De-ren Chen, Liang-Jie Zhang, Rong-Guo Wang","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021237","url":null,"abstract":"Message Queuing allows applications to use components that communicate with one another using queued messages. In this paper, we propose a Message Queuing Markup Language (MQML), which is an XML based markup language designed to describe e-business applications and enterprise integration. The MQML language is extensible. The detailed description of the MQML is presented in this paper. An research prototype is given to validate the effectiveness and value of our proposed MQML for enterprise integration.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130881509","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":"Pricing bundled information goods","authors":"K. Altinkemer, J. Jaisingh","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021245","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the bundling literature by presenting a model to study bundling strategies for firms when the firm produces both information goods and a comparable physical world good. Two models are considered 1) Where the firm produces only information goods and 2) Where the firm produces a comparable physical good, apart from the information goods. Results suggest that a profit-maximizing firm should offer only the largest bundle, containing all the information goods. Profits for bundles containing substitute goods (sub-additive valuations), were found to be lower than the profits for bundles containing information goods whose valuations added up, when bundled together. Total profits decrease with an increase in marginal cost of the physical good. Also profits were found to increase (decrease) with an increase in the existing demand for the physical good, when the marginal cost of the physical good was low (high).","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122491817","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":"Integration of Web services into workflows through a multi-level schema architecture","authors":"Günter Preuner, M. Schrefl","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021241","url":null,"abstract":"Many organizations provide access to their workflows via Web interfaces, giving customers the opportunity to create and manipulate business cases interactively according to a predefined set of operations. Since enterprises can request such Web services in order to satisfy their business goals, it may be desirable for these enterprises to access Web services not only interactively, but to import and integrate them into their own workflow management systems and to invoke them from within workflow applications. There are several initiatives to standardize the specification of services in order to provide them to enterprises for import. Yet currently most providers of Web services do not support these specifications. Thus, requesting enterprises must extract the workflows and business objects behind the provided Web interface from the visible Web pages. This paper presents a design architecture for extracting the Web interface and the underlying workflows and business objects from a Web site in consecutive extraction phases, each phase resulting in a conceptual schema at one particular level in the architecture. The architecture satisfies service independence, i.e., changes in the Web interface do not require a complete redesign of the conceptual schemas, and level-specific integration, i.e., extracted Web services can be integrated at different design levels depending on the purpose of integration.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120966896","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}
Anindya Datta, K. Dutta, Helen M. Thomas, Debra E. VanderMeer, K. Ramamritham, Suresha
{"title":"A proxy-based approach for dynamic content acceleration on the WWW","authors":"Anindya Datta, K. Dutta, Helen M. Thomas, Debra E. VanderMeer, K. Ramamritham, Suresha","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021254","url":null,"abstract":"Various dynamic content caching approaches have been proposed to address the performance and scalability problems faced by many Web sites that utilize dynamic content generation applications. Proxy-based caching approaches store content at various locations outside the site infrastructure and can improve Web site performance by reducing content generation delays, firewall processing delays, and bandwidth requirements. However, existing proxy-based caching approaches either: (a) cache at the page level, which does not guarantee that correct pages are served and provides very limited reusability, or (b) cache at the fragment level, which requires the use of pre-defined page layouts. To address these issues, several back end caching approaches have been proposed, including query result caching and fragment level caching. While back end approaches guarantee the correctness of results and offer the advantages of fine-grained caching, they neither address firewall delays nor reduce bandwidth requirements. The authors present an approach and an implementation of a dynamic proxy caching technique which combines the benefits of both proxy-based and back end caching approaches, yet does not suffer from their above-mentioned limitations.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133795410","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":"Flexible inter-enterprise workflow management using e-services","authors":"Jie Meng, Raja Krithivasan, S. Su, A. Helal","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021240","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a solution to achieve dynamic Inter-enterprise workflow management using the e-services provided by collaborative e-business enterprises. E-services are distributed services that can be accessed programmatically on the Internet, using SOAP messages and the HTTP protocol. We categorize e-services according to their business types and manage them in an UDDI-enabled Broker Server. By E-service requests are specified in the activities of a process model according to some standardized e-service templates and are bound to the proper service providers at run-time by using a constraint-based, dynamic service binding mechanism. The workflow management system is dynamic in the sense that the actual business organizations that take part in a business process are not determined until run-time.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121404211","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":"Modular content personalization service architecture for e-commerce applications","authors":"Susanne CJ Boll","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2002.1021261","url":null,"abstract":"Personalized Web portals are becoming more and more popular. What is unsatisfying with existing sites is that the scope of the personalized content they provide is typically that of the underlying site. Providers of such personalized content typically develop their own, proprietary personalized Web portal. To use different personalization features of different sites users have to hop from one personalized site to another and provide different user profile information there. Therefore, we propose a flexible architecture in which a personalization mediator acts as a broker of modular personalization services between providers of personalized content and users that are interested in such personalized content. In this architecture, the providers of personalized content publish their personalization services via a unified interface to this mediator A user provides its profile information to the mediator which in turn finds and calls the most suitable service which finally delivers the most targeted personalized content. The benefit of our approach is that users get an easier and unified access to a notional unlimited collection of personalization services by the mediator For the providers, the approach allows different sites with different personalization capabilities to embed their personalization services in a generic infrastructure for applications like personalized Web portals.","PeriodicalId":287894,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130683232","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}