Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems: IFIP TC2 / WG2.6 Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics April 25–28, 2001, Hong Kong

331 Pages·2003·18.714 MB·English

by  Hans Weigand, Lai Xu (auth.), Robert Meersman, Karl Aberer, Tharam Dillon (eds.)

SEMANTIC ISSUES IN E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS
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SEMANTIC ISSUES
IN E-COMMERCE
SYSTEMS
IFJP TC2/ WG2.6 Ninth Working Conference on
Database Semantics
April 25-28, 2001, Hong Kong
Edited by
Robert Meersman
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
Karl Aberer
EPFL
Switzerland
Tharam Dillon
La Trobe University
Australia
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Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems
Edited by Robert Meersman, Karl Aberer and Tharam Dillon
ISBN 978-1-4757-1035-9 ISBN 978-0-387-35658-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-35658-7
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Contents
Preface .......................................................................................................... ix
Committees, Reviewers and Sponsors ........................................................ xiii
Session I: Contracts
1. Contracts in E-Commerce
Hans Weigand and Lai Xu ........................................................................ 3
2. The Role of Contract and Component Semantics in Dynamic
E-Contract Enactment Configuration
Heiko Ludwig and Yigal Hoffner ............................................................ 19
3. A Dynamic License Agreement System for Reuse of
Web Contents
Michiko Yasukawa .................................................................................. 35
Session II: Security Issues
4. Secure E-Commerce Transactions, Modeling and
Implementation Aspects
]ian Tang and Ada Waichee Fu .............................................................. 53
s.
From Call for Tenders to Sealed-Bid Auction for Mediated
Ecommerce
Omid Amirhamzeh Tafreschi and Markus Schneider,
Peter Fankhauser, Bendick Mahleko, Thomas Tesch ............................. 69
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6. Web Notary Systems for Privacy Keeping E-Commerce
Manen Ying, Yahiko Kambayashi, Kai Cheng and
Yanchun Zhang ....................................................................................... 87
Session III: Process Interoperability
7. Seamless Integration of Inquiry and Transactional Tasks in
Web Applications
Juan J.Rodriguez and Oscar Diaz ........................................................ 105
8. An XML-based Interorganizational Knowledge Mediation
Scheme to Support B2B Solution
S. Castano, V. De Antonellis and S. De Capitani di Vimercati ............. 121
9. Views for Inter-organization Workflow in an E-commerce
Environment
Dickson K. W. CH/V, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Qing Li ................ 137
Session IV: Semantics Mining
10. Capturing the Semantics of Web Log Data by Navigation
Matrices
Wilfred Ng ........................................................................................... 155
11. Discovery of Semantic Relationships among Web Pages
Based on Web Topic Structures
Takeshi Matsukura, Hiroyuki Kondo, Yoichi Hirata and
Katsumi Tanaka ................................................................................... 171
12. WebSifter: An Ontological Web-Mining Agent for E-Business
Anthony Scime and Larry Kerschberg ................................................ 187
Session V: Using Metadata for Integration
13. Infomediation for E-business enabled Supply Chains:
A Semantics Based Approach
Sudha Ram, Yousub Hwang and Vijay Khatri ..................................... 205
14. An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based
Catalogs for B2B Electronic Commerce
Borys Omelayenko and Dieter Fensel ................................................. 221
Contents vii
15. A Model to Support E-Catalog Integration
Sham Navathe, Helen Thomas, Manit Satitsamitpong,
Anindya Datta ..................................................................................... 237
Session VI: Service Integration
16. The !Rules Project - Using Active Rules for the Integration
of Distributed Software Components
Susan D. Urban, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Yinghui Na, Ying Jin,
Amy Sundermier, Akash Saxena .......................................................... 255
17. Towards A Semantic Framework for Service Description
Marlon Dumas, Justin O'Sullivan, Mitra Heravizadeh,
David Edmond, Arthur ter Hofstede .................................................... 277
Session VII: Application Modeling
18. A Model-Based Approach to Web-Application Development
Oscar Diaz, Felipe Ibanez, Jon Iturrioz .............................................. 295
19. The Importance of Ownership for E-Commerce
J. Geller, Y. Perl, L. Liu, C. Rush and M. Halper ............................... 311
20. Constraints as Mobile Specifications in E-Commerce Applications
Kit-ying Hui, Peter M. D. Gray, Graham J. L. Kemp and
Alun D. Preece .................................................................................... 327
Author Index .............................................................................................. 342
Preface
E-commerce systems have been capturing the popular imagination and purse
in recent times. They 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. The organisers of this conference felt
that to date insufficient attention has been focussed on such issues. Whilst
database studies have achieved considerable success in the wider market
place, the main effort has been on tools and techniques for high volume but
fairly simplistic record management. These modem advanced e-commerce
systems require a paradigm shift to allow the representation and
manipulation of complex information on the Web and Internet. This requires
the development of complex 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 is a clearly defined semantics for e
commerce systems and databases.
Therefore, in this 9th Data Semantics Working Conference, the focus was on
those issues of e-commerce systems that involve the semantics of the
information represented, stored and manipulated by these systems. This not
only included 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.
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The purpose of this 9th Data Semantics IFIP Working Conference, as its
predecessors organized by Working Group WG 2.6 (Database) since 1985,
therefore was to again provide this active forum for researchers and
practitioners to present and exchange of research results and practical
management of databases, this time applied to systems containing e
commerce information. Judging from the contents of this book, and from our
experience at the event itself, it seems we may claim a measure of success in
encouraging researchers, and practitioners, to submit and discuss among
peers their original contributions and case studies. Evidently semantics is a
key issue in distributed systems such as the emerging semantic Web in
which the meaning of business information will be the essence of all
communication.
On the call for papers that was consecutively issued for the 9th Data
Semantics Working Conference, we received 36 submissions. We would like
to thank all the authors who submitted a paper, as their effort is the
foundation of the success of every conference. In a thourough review
process, in which most papers received up to 5 reviews, 20 papers were
selected for the research track. This shows that the quality of submissions
was considerably high. The whole review process was handled electronically
and the final paper selection was made in a round of email discussions. We
would like to thank all the PC members here for their contribution to this
considerable effort.
At the conference itself we were pleased to welcome 70 registered
participants. Besides an attractive research track, we were also proud to
introduce three prestigious keynote speakers. Dieter Pensel addressed the
problem of content management in B2B Ecommerce, emphasizing in
particular the problem of heterogeneity in e-commerce documents. John
Mylopoulos presented his view and solution paths towards knowledge
management in businesses. Zhongzhi Shi provided insights into the role of
agent technology in ecommerce, in particular for the collection and
extraction of information. The program was rounded up by a panel
discussion on the topic ''The Peer-2-Peer Paradigm in Electronic Commerce:
a new kind application or do we need a new kind of information systems?",
which provided interesting insights on the different perception of the notion
of Peer-2-Peer from the scientific and business communities.
We would like to thank all of those who contributed to the process of setting
up the research program of DS-9. In particular we would like to thank
Magdalena Punceva, Chantal Menghini and Zoran Despotovic, who were
instrumental at EPFL in handling the electronic submission and review
process. Our thanks go also to Hong Va Leong from Polytechnic University
in Hong Kong, the webmaster and local proceedings editor. He has been
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always responsive and proactive related to matters on the publication of the
proceedings and the webpages. We would like to thank also especially our
general chair Qing Li for the successful organization of the event, who
always served as an interface among us and the conference organization in
Hong Kong and as a driving force whenever something got stuck.
Robert Meersman
Karl Aberer
Tharam Dillon