Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems

by Meersman, Robert; Aberer, Karl; Dillon, Tharam S.

• ISBN13: 9781402073519
• ISBN10: 1402073518
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

E-commerce systems involve a complex interaction between Web Based Internet related software, application software and databases. It is clear that the success of e-commerce systems is going to be dependent not only on the technology of these systems but also on the quality of the underlying databases and supporting processes. Whilst databases have achieved considerable success in the wider marketplace, the main research effort has been on tools and techniques for high volume but based on relatively simplistic record management. The modern advanced e-commerce systems require a paradigm shift to allow the meaningful representation and manipulation of complex business information on the Web and Internet. This requires the development of new methodologies, environments and tools to allow one to easily understand the underlying structure to facilitate access, manipulation and modification of such information. An essential characteristic to gain understanding and interoperability is a clearly defined semantics for e-commerce systems and databases. The focus of this volume is therefore on those issues of e-commerce systems that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored and manipulated by these systems. This not only includes methodologies for application domain modeling, formal representations of e-commerce aspects of knowledge, the role of semantics, Internet based transmission and display of data, etc. but also issues in user interfacing and process modeling, architectures that better enable integrity, consistency, interoperation reuse of components, or reports on prototypes illustrating new aspects of such systems from a semantically relevant viewpoint. Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems comprises the proceedings of the Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Hong Kong in April 2001. This volume will be essential for researchers and practitioners working in the areas of database management, information retrieval and data mining, and user interfaces, as applied to e-commerce.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Committees, Reviewers and Sponsors	xiii
Session I: Contracts
Contracts in E-Commerce	3	(16)
Hans Weigand
Lai Xu
The Role of Contract and Component Semantics in Dynamic E-Contract Enactment Configuration	19	(16)
Heiko Ludwig
Yigal Hoffner
A Dynamic License Agreement System for Reuse of Web Contents	35	(18)
Michiko Yasukawa
Session II: Security Issues
Secure E-Commerce Transactions, Modeling and Implementation Aspects	53	(16)
Jian Tang
Ada Waichee Fu
From Call for Tenders to Sealed-Bid Auction for Mediated Ecommerce	69	(18)
Omid Amirhamzeh Tafreschi
Markus Schneider
Peter Fankhauser
Bendick Mahleko
Thomas Tesch
Web Notary Systems for Privacy Keeping E-Commerce	87	(18)
Manen Ying
Yahiko Kambayashi
Kai Cheng
Yanchun Zhang
Session III: Process Interoperability
Seamless Integration of Inquiry and Transactional Tasks in Web Applications	105	(16)
Juan J. Rodriguez
Oscar Diaz
An XML-based Interorganizational Knowledge Mediation Scheme to Support B2B Solution	121	(16)
S. Castano
V. De Antonellis
S. De Capitani di Vimercati
Views for Inter-organization Workflow in an E-commerce Environment	137	(18)
Dickson K. W. Chiu
Kamalakar Karlapalem
Qing Li
Session IV: Semantics Mining
Capturing the Semantics of Web Log Data by Navigation Matrices	155	(16)
Wilfred Ng
Discovery of Semantic Relationships among Web Pages Based on Web Topic Structures	171	(16)
Takeshi Matsukura
Hiroyuki Kondo
Yoichi Hirata
Katsumi Tanaka
WebSifter: An Ontological Web-Mining Agent for E-Business	187	(18)
Anthony Scime
Larry Kerschberg
Session V: Using Metadata for Integration
Infomediation for E-business enabled Supply Chains: A Semantics Based Approach	205	(16)
Sudha Ram
Yousub Hwang
Vijay Khatri
An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogs for B2B Electronic Commerce	221	(16)
Borys Omelayenko
Dieter Fensel
A Model to Support E-Catalog Integration	237	(18)
Sham Navathe
Helen Thomas
Manit Satitsamitpong
Anindya Datta
Session VI: Service Integration
The IRules Project -- Using Active Rules for the Integration of Distributed Software Components	255	(22)
Susan D. Urban
Suzanne W. Dietrich
Yinghui Na
Ying Jin
Amy Sundermier
Akash Saxena
Towards A Semantic Framework for Service Description	277	(18)
Marlon Dumas
Justin O'Sullivan
Mitra Heravizadeh
David Edmond
Arthur ter Hofstede
Session VII: Application Modeling
A Model-Based Approach to Web-Application Development	295	(16)
Oscar Diaz
Felipe Ibanez
Jon Iturrioz
The Importance of Ownership for E-Commerce	311	(16)
J. Geller
Y. Perl
L. Liu
C. Rush
M. Halper
Constraints as Mobile Specifications in E-Commerce Applications	327	(15)
Kit-ying Hui
Peter M. D. Gray
Graham J. L. Kemp
Alun D. Preece
Author Index	342