Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions

Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions

Katalin Tarnay, Sandor Imre, Lai Xu

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 328

ISBN13: 9781466641815|ISBN10: 1466641819|EISBN13: 9781466641822

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4181-5

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Tarnay, Katalin, Sandor Imre, and Lai Xu, eds. Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4181-5

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As businesses are continuously developing new services, procedures, and standards, electronic business has emerged into an important aspect of the science field by providing various applications through efficiently and rapidly processing information among business partners.

Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions highlights the main concepts of e-business as well as the advanced methods, technologies, and aspects that focus on technical support. This book is an essential reference source of professors, students, researchers, developers, and other industry experts in order to provide a vast amount of specialized knowledge sources for promoting e-business.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Technologies and Service-Oriented Solutions

Chapter 1

E-Business Modeling Languages (pages 1-19)

Gábor Kovács

This chapter gives an overview of modeling languages used for modeling business environment, abstract workflows, executable business processes, and business data. The languages are either abstract that primarily serve the purposes of...

Chapter 2

IOTP and Payments Protocols (pages 20-56)

Tibor Dulai, Szilárd Jaskó, Katalin Tarnay

The purpose of this chapter is that an enquirer in the topics of e-commerce and e-business should get introspection into the protocol aspects of electronic business technology.

Chapter 3

Business Intelligence and Data Mining (pages 57-70)

Zsolt T. Kardkovács

Whenever decision makers find out that they want to know more about how the business works and progresses, or why customers do what they do, then data miners are summoned, and business intelligence is to be built or altered. Data...

Chapter 4

Decision Trees and Random Forest for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (pages 71-90)

Gábor Szucs

The objective of this chapter is to present brief literature and new results of research in privacy-preserving data mining as an important privacy issue in the e-business area. The chapter focuses on classification problems in...

Chapter 5

Business Semantics Alignment for Business Process Model Integration (pages 91-112)

Janina Fengel

Business process modeling has become an accepted means for designing and describing business operations. However, due to dissimilar utilization of modeling languages and, even more importantly, the natural language for labeling model...

Chapter 6

Service Oriented Business Process Modeling Today and Tomorrow (pages 113-133)

Lai Xu, Paul de Vrieze

In this chapter, the authors explore fundamental links between business process management and Web services. The authors discuss how service technologies can extend traditional business process management into a cross-organizational...

Chapter 7

Tracking and Fingerprinting in E-Business: New Storageless Technologies and Countermeasures (pages 134-166)

Károly Boda, Ádám Máté Földes, Gábor György Gulyás, Sándor Imre

Online user tracking is a widely used marketing tool in e-business, even though it is often neglected in the related literature. In this chapter, the authors provide an exhaustive survey of tracking-related identification techniques...

Chapter 8

A Practical Cloud Services Implementation Framework for E-Businesses (pages 167-198)

Ramanathan Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Suriya Priya Asaithambi

This chapter proposes a strategic framework with practical guidelines for the key players, namely, cloud service providers, cloud architects, and consumers, which would facilitate in successful adoption of cloud-based...

Chapter 9

Cloud Selection for E-Business A Parameter Based Solution (pages 199-207)

Hemant Kumar Mehta

Cloud computing is a rapidly evolving area of distributed computing that has significantly changed the way e-business functions are performed. Cloud computing is proven to be an application enabler technology, as several new...

Chapter 10

English Auction Issues in Mobile E-Commerce (pages 208-223)

Nandini Sidnal, Sunilkumar S. Manvi

Recently, agent technology is playing a dominant role in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), distributed computing, and Internet commerce. Agents are set to represent on behalf of customers and vendors in m-commerce to resolve...

Selected Case Studies

Chapter 11

E-Business Adoption Framework in the Hospitality Industry: The Case of Kenyan Coast (pages 225-243)

Kennedy O. Ondimu, Geoffrey M. Muketha, Collins O. Ondago

While the hospitality industry in the Kenyan Coast has adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT), application of the same is limited to internal operations and control. The industry’s e-business adoption lags behind...

Chapter 12

E-Business Investment Evaluation and Outsourcing Practices in Australian and Taiwanese Hospitals: A Comparative Study (pages 244-266)

Chad Lin, Geoffrey Jalleh, Yu-An Huang

In recent years, hospitals have come to realize that they can only compete with competitors through the efficient use of their IT/e-business resources. Hospital executives are becoming increasingly aware of challenges and...

Chapter 13

A Review into E-Health Services and Therapies: Potential for Virtual Therapeutic Communities - Supporting People with Severe Personality Disorder (pages 267-279)

Alice Good, Arunasalam Sambhanthan

E-health has expanded hugely over the last fifteen years and continues to evolve, providing greater benefits for patients, health care professionals, and providers alike. The technologies that support these systems have become...

Chapter 14

Electronic Retailing of Prepared Food in Australia (pages 280-292)

Sujana Adapa

The advent and evolution of the Internet has dramatically transformed the way businesses used to operate. Modern businesses perform many transactions in an electronic environment and offer many advantages for both retailers and...

Chapter 15

Understanding Security in Consumer Adoption of Internet Banking: Biometrics Technology Implementation in the Malaysian Banking Context (pages 293-306)

Normalini M. K., T. Ramayah

As a continually growing financial service of electronic commerce, Internet banking requires the development and implementation of a sound security procedure. The existing literature highlights security as the primary factor which...

Chapter 16

Towards Understanding the Intention to Use and Continuance Usage Intention of E-Filing System in Malaysia: The Moderating Role of Perceived Risk (pages 307-324)

Santhanamery Thominathan, T. Ramayah

E-Government actually represents a higher quality, cost effective government services and a better relationship between citizens and governments. Research on e-government is taking a new phase nowadays, with research focusing more to...

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Compilation of References

About the Contributors

Index

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