{"title":"Failure analysis of an e-commerce protocol using model checking","authors":"I. Ray, I. Ray","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853873","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid growth of electronic commerce (e-commerce) has necessitated the development of e-commerce protocols. These protocols ensure the confidentiality and integrity of information exchanged. In addition, researchers have identified other desirable properties, such as money atomicity, goods atomicity and validated receipt, that must be satisfied by e-commerce protocols. This paper shows how model checking can be used to obtain an assurance about the existence of these properties in an e-commerce protocol. It is essential that these desirable properties be satisfied even in the presence of site or communication failures. Using the model checker, we evaluate which failures cause the violation of one or more of the properties. The results of the analysis are then used to propose a mechanism that handles the failures to make the protocol failure-resilient.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131366913","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":"Scheduling algorithms for the broadcast delivery of multimedia products","authors":"V. Vinay, K. Ramamritham","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853876","url":null,"abstract":"Free bandwidth in television channels which is available in the form of the vertical blanking interval (VBI) is currently being utilized to broadcast programme information, HTML pages and closed captioning. This bandwidth can be used to broadcast data and also products like video clips, software, multimedia packages, etc. thereby satisfying several customers with a single transmission at very high speeds. We present several heuristic algorithms that attempt to maximize the revenue earned by an e-commerce merchant providing such a service. These algorithms are tailored to deal with different customer service policies.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128154259","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":"Agent-mediated Internet advertising","authors":"D. Siew, X. Yi","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853864","url":null,"abstract":"After fewer than three years as an industry, Internet advertising has grown rapidly and is expected to command an even larger portion of advertisers' media budgets with the next decade. From the points of view of Internet advertisers, it will be very advantageous if Internet advertising can be automatically carried out. Software agent technology offers a new paradigm for advertising on the Internet. It can be used to automate several of the most time consuming stages of Internet advertising. This paper surveys the application trends of software agents in Internet advertising and proposes some solutions to these trends at the same time.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"55 34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116849937","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":"How e-commerce can benefit from visualization","authors":"Miriam Lux","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853878","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet has become one of the most important means of communication. The powerful architecture of the Internet makes conducting business possible. In e-commerce applications the number of goods and the exchange of information are increasing. In order to make full use of the Internet's potential, user-friendly access to information is needed for the optimal distribution of information and knowledge. User-friendliness means easy technical access and methods to enhance the user's comprehension of the information. This can be achieved with the support of information visualization. Therefore, we have developed the WWWW model, which demonstrates how e-commerce can benefit from visualization. The PROSECO system is designed as an open scalable framework architecture to easily provide and access any services needed for distributed visualization of abstract data. We demonstrate the capabilities of our concepts by providing user-friendly access to economic information.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115473151","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 generic load/extract utility for data transfer between XML documents and relational databases","authors":"Ronald Bourret, Christof Bornhövd, A. Buchmann","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853868","url":null,"abstract":"XML is rapidly gaining momentum in e-commerce and Internet-based information exchange, where its simplicity and custom-defined tags make it usable as a semantics-preserving data exchange format. However, to realize this potential it is necessary to be able to extract structured data from XML documents and store it in a database, as well as to generate XML documents from data extracted from a database. Although many DBMS vendors are scrambling to extend their products to handle XML, there is a need for a lightweight, DBMS- and platform-independent load/extract utility as well. In this paper, we describe such a utility that solves the following problems: (1) loading data from XML documents into relational tables with a known schema, (2) creating XML documents according to a known document type definition (DTD) from data extracted from a database, (3) generating relational schemas from XML DTDs for on-the-fly storage of XML documents, and (4) generating XML DTDs from relational schemas for on-the-fly extraction of relational data. We introduce a language to describe a mapping between an existing XML DTD and an existing relational schema and discuss some of the interesting issues arising from such a mapping.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128755762","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 bid evaluation system for Internet contract negotiation","authors":"Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Mitchell A. Cohen, Jen-Yao Chung","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853856","url":null,"abstract":"Competitive advantages in a fast-changing electronic procurement market are enabling buyers to explore many opportunities to purchase the best commodities, not only at the most favorable prices, but also to satisfy business objectives and organizational strategies. Some seasonal commodities and future contracts have to deal with uncontrollable factors such as the elasticity of the price and the constant variation of the demand. These trends present some new challenges in bid evaluations and business decisions. We have developed a system, which uses a hierarchical decision-criteria framework to handle complex constraint hierarchy with n-ary variables. In addition, the system provides the mechanism to analyze and forecast certain events based on the seasonal and historical data.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128794553","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":"Aggregate path index for incremental Web view maintenance","authors":"Li Chen, Elke A. Rundensteiner","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853880","url":null,"abstract":"As Web data keeps growing in an explosive way, Web queries need to be materialized to achieve fast query response time. However, developing efficient maintenance techniques for materialized views over dynamic Web data sources is more challenging than in the traditional database context. In this paper, given a Web view specified in XQL, we propose an aggregation path index structure to hold a collection of \"qualified\" objects with respect to the query pattern. By utilizing the pre-computed auxiliary information stored in such an index, our algorithms show that Web view maintenance can be done more efficiently. Cost analysis and experimental studies on the advantages of our incremental maintenance approach compared to state-of-art solutions illustrate the performance gains of APIX.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122294236","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}
Christof Bornhövd, Mariano Cilia, C. Liebig, A. Buchmann
{"title":"An infrastructure for meta-auctions","authors":"Christof Bornhövd, Mariano Cilia, C. Liebig, A. Buchmann","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853855","url":null,"abstract":"Auctions have been a popular trading paradigm for centuries but have gained new interest through world-wide trading on the Internet. Many B2C sites are embracing reverse auctions as an additional service to registered customers. In all these cases the efficient notification of the participants is essential. We develop the notion of a meta-auction that allows a potential buyer to roam automatically across auction sites and we identify critical communication and notification requirements of the next generation of Internet-scale trading systems. First, today's information systems are limited in their growth and interaction potential because the typical client-server and n-tier system architectures are solely based on a request/response interaction; second, the user-initiated query metaphor from the database domain is the primary means for information acquisition; and third, many assumptions about the meaning of data and notifications provided and exchanged through the Internet are left implicit. We argue that Internet-scale business applications require publish/subscribe as an additional interaction paradigm, should leverage proactive information dissemination and caching mechanisms, and that there is a compelling need for metadata-based infrastructures providing common vocabularies for semantically meaningful exchange of data and notifications. We illustrate these points through examples from the auction domain and the development of the meta-auction concept.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130731518","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":"Development of inter-college e-commerce system through extending a legacy system","authors":"H. Oiso, N. Komoda","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853877","url":null,"abstract":"We developed the inter-college e-commerce system that enables colleges to provide extension courses to each other. The system streamlines the internal operations (such as registration and fee management), and automates flow of data between colleges and the WWW. In the development, we extended a legacy system, because its use is necessary for efficient back-end operations. In this paper we propose a method of extending a legacy system into an end-to-end integrated EC system using Internet EDI, triggers, and intermediate DB in a cost-efficient manner.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122750989","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":"MONTANA: towards a Web-based infrastructure to improve lecture and research in a university environment","authors":"R. Behrens","doi":"10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853859","url":null,"abstract":"We report on current work within our project MONTANA which is a digital media archive for teaching and research. We show how to model structures and describe metadata by the use of XML. We combine the Resource Description Framework, which is an application of XML, with the Dublin Core to provide broad interoperability and data reuse. Our approach models metadata of single objects as well as global coherences. XML in its origin focuses at document markup only. By using XML as a data model several problems appeared. We highlight these problems and motivate the need for an extension.","PeriodicalId":340737,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Second International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems. WECWIS 2000","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134250658","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}