Group Support Systems enable harvesting knowledge from groups. The minutes of a typical GSS meeting are mostly textual reports of 10 to 50 pages summarizing the issues discussed, the set priorities and proposed actions. Capitalizing on knowledge generated during GSS meetings appears to be very difficult without additional automated support. In this paper we describe our experiences with several...

The paper presents a new online service for the dependency parsing of Polish. Given raw text as input, the service processes it and visualises output dependency trees. The service applies the parsing system – MaltParser – with a parsing model for Polish trained on the Polish Dependency Bank, and some additional publicly available tools.

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The emergence of the web service market in the last years offers more and more the opportunity for companies to buy web services from external service providers as an alternative to develop them internally. Such considerations are well-known in IS literature and discussed in the context of IT outsourcing and make-orbuy decision making regarding IT applications. However, characteristics of web s...

In the present era, Reverse Logistics Support has monitored as a momentous realm, where stuffs are transferred from point of consumption to origin. The companies who provide the logistic equipments, i.e. Truck, Joseph Cyril Bomford, and Shipment, etc. to its partner’s firms called Third-Party Logistics (3PL) service provider. Today, the feasible 3PL service provider evaluation-opt problem is ye...

Despite skepticism concerning the latest buzz phrases about Web services, leading-edge companies have already begun deploying Web services that are giving them competitive advantages. Major platform vendors are now rolling out revolutionary tools aimed at simplifying the creation and deployment of Web services. Promising cheap, reliable, flexible, and scalable computing as well as quality web s...

Extant literature characterizes the ties between buyers and sellers in online goods marketplaces–such as EBay or Amazon–as "arm's length" relationships. In such relationships, parties are effectively strangers, and exchange goods under the assumption that they will likely never again meet in the marketplace. The rapid rise of online service marketplaces, however, warrants a thorough examination...

We describe the Federation Semantic Attribute Mapping System (F-SAMS), a web services based system that automatically collects, in a trustworthy manner, the semantic mappings of Identity Provider (IdP) assigned attributes into a federation agreed set of standard attributes. The collected knowledge may be used by federation service providers (SPs) to support the dynamic management of IdPs and th...

How reviews impact patient choice in health field is still unknown. Patients often worry about their diseases and are eager to find a high skill physician to cure their painful. Traditional hospitals often lack information about individual physician, and with the emergence of online health communities (OHCs), patients can get physician service information on the platform. This study researches ...