E-science promises to allow globally-distributed collaboration and access to scientific research via computer networks, but e-science development is already encountering difficulty over the intellectual property rights associated with data and networked collaborative activity. The proprietary nature of intellectual property is generally problematic in the practice of science, but such difficult...

Advances in e-commerce have resulted in significant progress towards strategies, requirements, and development of e-commerce applications. However, nearly all e-commerce applications envisioned and developed so far assume fixed or stationary users with wired infrastructure. We envision many new e-commerce applications that will be possible and significantly benefit from emerging wireless and mo...

In the current context, characterized by a sort of ‘open innovation’, spin-offs phenomenon represents an innovative approach to support technological knowledge transfer and innovation processes from research organizations to industrial world. Furthermore, spin-offs could be considered an innovative strategy to follow up the results obtained within collaborative R&D (Research and Development) pr...

Over the past decade, there has been a lot of work in developing middleware for integrating and automating enterprise business processes. Today, with the growth in e-commerce and the blurring of enterprise boundaries, there is renewed interest in business process coordination, especially for inter-organizational processes. This paper provides a historical perspective on technologies for intraan...

The term 'social media' refers to a cluster of applications and online services that support human interaction and content broadcasting and sharing. Current services are isolated islands or 'walled gardens', and are based on a business model that is highly exploitative of individuals and their data. An alternative, consumer-oriented approach is feasible, involving open architecture, inter-opera...

Recommender systems provide valuable support for users who are searching for products and services in e-commerce environments. Research in the field long focused on algorithms supporting the recommendation of quality & taste products such as news, books, or movies. Nowadays, the scope of those systems is extended to complex product domains such as financial services or electronic consumer goods...

System Dynamics gehört heutzutage zu den bekanntesten Simulationstech-niken und eignet sich insbesondere für die Ableitung langfristig wirksamer Entschei-dungsregeln. Im Forschungsprojekt SimProgno wird diese Simulationstechnik für die simulative Prognose von Fragestellungen im E-Commerce eingesetzt. Ziel des Projek-tes ist die Entwicklung eines Integrations-Frameworks für die Konstruktion komp...

Consider a person who needs to assess a large amount of information. For instance, think of a teacher of a massive open online course with thousands of enrolled students, or a senior program committee member in a large conference who needs to decide what are the final marks of reviewed papers, or a buyer in an e-commerce scenario who needs to build up her opinion about products. When assessing ...

As part of e-Science work being undertaken on several projects at the University of Portsmouth and Daresbury Laboratory, we are investigating and developing advanced Grid portals using a range of emerging portlet-based technologies and services. The OGSA Testbed project, led by the University of Portsmouth, has enabled us to evaluate the use technologies such as GT3, OGSA-DAI, and eventually WS...

The word “E” transformed everything is this world, as well as the whole globe itself. To a great extend this helps for eco friendly green world. In educational field, electronic medium has played a major role. It influenced and changed almost every component of it to electronic medium like e-book, online courses, etc. Throughout the world, leading universities are offering online courses volunt...