Recent times have seen the rate of adoption of EDI systems decrease significantly. In an attempt to develop widely accessible EDI systems companies are looking to the Internet and emerging standards for data transportation. An XML-based electronic trading system is an example of a system that facilitates Internet-based EDI transactions. The purpose of this research is to investigate the issues ...

background: conventional health, safety and environment (hse) are a widely used approach to enhance availability and efficiency of complex systems. the integrated hsee system is defined however as integration of conventional hse with ergonomics approach. the presented hsee system introduces a unique, effective and systemic mechanism, which integrates the structure of the human and organizationa...

INTRODUCTION The computer revolution has transformed modern life by integrating every aspect of society. It has penetrated the way enterprises communicate, as well as the way they do business. Electronic commerce is contributing to this revolution by changing the way enterprises buy and sell products and services. Today, many enterprises are performing secure and reliable large-scale enterprise...

TradeNet, an electronic data interchange (EDI) system, has been touted as one of the most successful implementations of information technology at a nationwide level. To date, assessments of the benefits arising from TradeNet are anec(total and focus primarily on the benefits accruing to the sponsor, i.e., the government agency. Notably absent is a systematic assessment of TradeNet from the pers...

The business models in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce and their effectiveness have been a major topic of research in recent years. Due to the variety of existing models, it seems difficult to find a widely accepted categorization that can be analyzed and assessed. An indepth study that provides a process-based approach to B2B e-commerce is presented and illustrated with examples from ind...

The circulation of agricultural products is more complex and uncertainty than that of industrial products. The distribution channels of agricultural products are quite unique. The agricultural products logistics directly affect the efficiency of china’s economy since agriculture is still main part of the economy. At the same time, with the development of information technology, e-business has a...

The factors leading to the initial adoption of an interorganizational system (IOS) are reasonably well understood, but this is not true of the determinants of the activities performed following that decision. This paper proposes that the motivation to implement a system is the starting point for understanding the implementation process and develops a theory about the relationship between the mo...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) offers many important benefits and improvements over its predecessor, HTML. But, articles have appeared about XML with exaggerated claims of it being a "Rosetta Stone" with "miraculuous ways" to almost automatically provide information integration. These claims are actually being believed by some executives. It is almost surprising that no one has claimed th...

Standardization of medical terminology is essential in data transmission between health care institutes and in maximizing the benefits of information technology. The purpose of this study was to standardize medical terms for laboratory observations. During the second year of the study, a standard database of concept names for laboratory terms that covered those used in tertiary health care inst...