T. Sannomiya, T. Amagasa, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura
{"title":"A framework for sharing personal annotations on web resources using XML","authors":"T. Sannomiya, T. Amagasa, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904487","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose WISPA (Web Indicator by Sharing Personal Annotations) Framework, which aims at mining useful information from communities on the World Wide Web with sharing personal annotations. In WISPA, annotations assigned to web pages on WWW are highly respected, because personal annotations contain each users' opinions or impressions to web pages, and those annotations can be used as essential materials for judging whether an information is important or not. Concretely, the process of WISPA proceeds as follows: First, users individually write personal annotations concerning certain web pages. Then, the system restructures and merges those annotations according to users' interests, and they browse others' useful annotations. As a consequence, new personal annotations are brought out as feedbacks. XML technologies are used for the implementation. In particular, the structure of the personal annotation are given by XML schema, and integration of personal annotations are realized by XLink.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131202551","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":"Service deployment for virtual enterprises","authors":"Jian Yang, W. Heuvel, M. Papazoglou","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904494","url":null,"abstract":"The ubiquity of the WWW offers far reaching opportunities for emerging Web-based applications based on service invocations. Although network-centric technologies will make the diverse services easily accessible via the Web, the development of e-commerce services (e-services) and networked services which share existing e-services is still an ad-hoc, very demanding, and time consuming task. We propose an integrated framework for e-services spanning legacy systems and modern enterprise business processes so that business transactions can be automated across the networked enterprises. Networked enterprise applications can thus be developed by fusing together services provided by individual enterprises.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114583306","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":"Automated cross-organisational trust establishment on extranets","authors":"Richard Au, M. Looi, P. Ashley","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904483","url":null,"abstract":"Trust management is an important aspect of information security in an organisation. It involves the complexity of relationships among people, computers and the organisational system. It becomes even more complex in the virtual enterprise environment where cross-organisational activities are involved. The paper presents a new paradigm for establishing trust across multiple organisations for external users on extranets. In our approach, the authorities of organisations administer their local users and at the same time can act as trust agents for distributing trust management information for other users in the virtual enterprise. Trust is propagated in the form of trust tokens through the web of trust. After collecting these trust tokens as recommendations, a new user can submit them to his destined organisation in order to acquire secure trust relation. By representing trust with a quantitative and comparable value, an automated mechanism for composing trust tokens is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124517763","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":"B2B contract implementation using Windows DNS","authors":"Ning He, Z. Milosevic","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904490","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes our implementation of a support infrastructure for electronic contracting-an important ingredient of Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce. The paper first explains the main benefits of the new generation of Microsoft technologies-Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture (DNA) and BizTalk. This is followed by a detailed description of how we take advantage of the XML tools provided by these technologies-to implement our enterprise model of contracts. We use a real-world contract scenario as a test-bed for examining our e-contract architecture and for implementing our prototype. The prototype was developed using publicly available BizTalk preview technology.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116906398","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":"Digital tags: data with restricted accessibility for e-commerce applications","authors":"Y. Kambayashi, H. Tarumi, K. Morishita","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904489","url":null,"abstract":"A digital tag is defined to be attached to objects and there are the following two kinds of major functions; (1) tags are only accessible through base objects and there are constraints which should be satisfied to access a tag, (2) tags can be used as paper tags in the real world. In many cases, it cannot exist without objects to be attached. For each object we can define a real or virtual world location such that the object can be accessed only from users close to it. In the real world the distance is defined to be real distance and in the virtual world it is defined to be, for example, the number of links to access the object to which the tag is attached. It can be used to simulate the real world constraints, since in the real world information available to a user will be changed by the location of the user and time-date. In this paper a definition of digital tags is given. Using digital tags we can realize e-commerce systems satisfying constraints currently realized by the real world. Although it is said that by e-commerce all price information is available to consumers and thus they can select the best sellers, apparently such a situation is not acceptable for most sellers and we believe realization of the current real-world constraints is important at least during the transition period. Since conventional database model is used as a basis, it is possible to remove some or all of real-world constraints and add artificial constraints. We have developed a prototype based on the idea using mobile computing systems, called a 'SpaceTag' system, where a space tag is a special case of a digital tag.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"751 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133664113","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":"Extending support for contracts in ebXML","authors":"J. Cole, Z. Milosevic","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904495","url":null,"abstract":"We describe our proposal for extending the current ebXML standard to provide more comprehensive support for electronic contracts. We first present the current status of major B2B initiatives, focusing on their support for electronic contracts. Having found the ebXML meta-model to provide a suitable contractual foundation, we examine the full extent of the requirements for supporting electronic contracts, and propose extensions to the ebXML meta-model to facilitate these requirements.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116624061","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":"Map based information sharing to support virtual enterprise activities","authors":"H. Takakura, K. Goshima, Y. Kambayashi","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904484","url":null,"abstract":"A virtual enterprise seems to be a feasible solution which can flexibly reorganize virtual structure in order to cope with radically changing market. However, the virtual organization sometimes makes its personnel's fellowship and realistic feeling weaker than ordinary one. Even if the structure is virtual, the enterprise has connection to the real world, i.e., it is required to make products/services appear on the market and to make a deal with customers and other companies. In order to eliminate extra cost, a virtual enterprise should be aware of influence of the real world and pay much attention to geographic information provided by people who concern the enterprise. In this paper, we will discuss map based information boards through which geographically distributed people can share various kinds of information. This paper enhances the ability of co-existence relationships previously proposed by authors. By applying extended co-existence relationships, each user easily obtains arbitrary maps which satisfy his/her requirements. These tailor-made maps can support all persons who concern the virtual enterprise to share various kinds of information. The enterprise utilizes the information in order to make decisions for its strategy.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"1049 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116280569","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":"Virtual enterprises-building blocks for dynamic e-business","authors":"Nitin Nayak, K. Bhaskaran, Raja Das","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904491","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic e-business, as envisioned by several industry analysts and corporate leaders, involves the rapid teaming of companies with both familiar and new business partners in pursuit of specific market opportunities. For realizing this new generation business model, the ability to form, operate, and disband virtual enterprises will be the single-most important requirement. These short-lived, opportunity-based organizations leverage the individual capabilities of several member companies to form virtual enterprises that have resources equivalent to a traditional vertically integrated corporation. Before successfully applying this business model, however, several issues need to be resolved, such as building trust and a collaborative attitude amongst member companies, developing the e-commerce infrastructure for handling engineered-to-order products and services, building optimal coalitions for the job, etc. This paper discusses our experiences in developing a web-based infrastructure for creating, operating, and eventually dissolving virtual enterprises. The primary operators of this infrastructure will be market makers offering custom products and services in various industries as well as corporations involved in bringing new products to the market.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130318469","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":"Web mining and its SQL based parallel execution","authors":"M. Kitsuregawa, T. Shintani, Iko Pramudiono","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904496","url":null,"abstract":"Web mining can be classified into two categories, Web access log mining and Web structure mining. We performed association rule mining and sequence pattern mining against the access log which was accumulated at NTT Software Mobile Info Search portal site. The detailed Web log mining process and the rules we derived are reported. The parallel association rule mining is explored on a large scale PC cluster system. Parallelism is key to improve the performance. We achieved substantial speed up through parallel SQL execution.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123299630","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":"Workflow in different styles of Virtual Enterprise","authors":"R. Tagg, M. Lakes","doi":"10.1109/ITVE.2001.904485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITVE.2001.904485","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the many forms a Virtual Enterprise (VE) can take, there is no single model of what type of approach to workflow management is most appropriate. This paper is based on an analysis of the different types of business practice that lead to the formation of VEs. A number of different workflow scenarios are depicted, and four specific issues are then discussed. The first is the recognition of the different life cycle stages of a Virtual Enterprise. The second is the problem of workflow case identifiers across organizational boundaries. The third is the need or otherwise for shared databases to support the different scenarios. The fourth is the question of the protocol for passing work in loosely-coupled workflows. Some ideas for future work are finally proposed.","PeriodicalId":430265,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. ITVE 2001","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133130207","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}