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The recent advent of web mashups that enable ad hoc integration of information and services from multiple disparate resources brings into the spotlight a new approach for managing situational projects in organizations. Situational projects are ...

In response to an increased need, various methods for ontology modularization have been proposed. However, few studies have focused on evaluative methods for ontology modules. In this study, we devise novel metrics to measure ontology modularity. To ...

E-Business systems, like Web based systems, usually use application server (AS) to support remote communication between heterogeneous systems. AS will certainly introduce great performance impacts to them transparently. This paper provides an impacts ...

In this paper, we tackle the problem as how to personalize the scheduling of ads for different users with objective to maximize the revenue of the search engine. In other word, our object is to deliver ads to individual users based on their interests ...

We propose a simple approach to fast extract the main text content from web pages, especially online news pages. Most existing approaches need to construct the DOM tree structure from the HTML source of the web page first, and then, extract the ...

Due to homonyms, abbreviations, etc., name ambiguity is widely available in web and e-document. For example, when integrating heterogeneous literature databases, because there are different name specifications, different authors may be thought of as the ...

This paper proposes a semantic information integration approach for agent-based electronic markets based on ontology-based technology, improved by the application and exploitation of the trust relationships captured by the social networks. We intent ...

Complex adaptive system (CAS) theory is used to analyze the e-commerce system and the concept of e-commerce transaction network is proposed. The e-commerce transaction network can be viewed as a complex network which is constructed by transaction ...

The current economic architecture of the Internet resembles more an Oligopoly-with several very large organisations dominating-than the idealised free market that many thought the Internet's characteristics-high non-local connectivity and low technical ...

Workflows in the service industry sometimes need to deal with multi-fold increases in customer demand within a short period of time. Such spikes in service demand may be caused by a variety of events including promotional deals, launching of new ...

This paper has investigated the issue of virtual wealth and its realization in both real and virtual worlds, and argued that the realization of virtual wealth is necessary and possible. On the formation of virtual wealth, it has studied the labor theory ...

Data are central to pharmacogenomics research and practices. However, due to the heterogeneous problems in data formats, structures and semantics, it is hard to integrate the diversified data that grow explosively and analyze them comprehensively. As ...

Currently there are increasing interests in using REST architecture style to implement business process. However, the importance of role is not emphasized. In fact role is critical to determine the RESTful services description and to control the ...

Rapidly changing business atmosphere and turbulent market conditions cause enterprises to collaborate with each other to accomplish business opportunities. Meanwhile, dynamic virtual enterprise (DVE) as a response for agile collaboration of various ...

While a lot of Web Services are available nowadays, Quality-of-Service (QoS) becomes a crucial concern to distinguish alternatives from each other. QoS-based service composition aims to determining optimal combinations among exponential candidates with ...