- Section 1.7: Advanced Research
in e-Market Places
Modelling Electronic Markets Preferences
M.J. Viamonte, C. Ramos
B2B eMarkets - An Analysing Framework
B. Lennstrand, M. Frey, M. Johansen
Electronic Markets for Services - Requirements
and the Road to Success for the Electronic Trade of C-Services
H. Hoeck, S. Bleck
New Challenges for e-Marketplaces, Relevant
Solutions
J. Peze
Concept and Model for an Internet Broker
Service for Bidding and Procurement in the Tile Industry
O. Peters, J. Zabel, F. Weber
openXchange - Framework for Integrated
Business Processes and Methods for Electronic Procurement and
Marketplaces
B. Otto
- FINMEDIARY
- A Financial Engineering Approach to Mediation in the Investment
Funding Process
R. Chelli, N. Allegretti, F. Giacometti
POEM: A Platform for an Open Electronic
Marketplace based on eCo Framework
A. Dogac and I. Cingil
EASYCRAFT: Towards a Trans-European E-Commerce
Ambient in the Craft Sector
A.M. Assimakopoulos, P.T. Parganas, M.A. Tzima, D.I. Fotiadis
Combined Internet Based Market and Engineering
System for Laser Job Shops
H.-K. Tönshoff A. Ostendorf, A. Mumbasic, M. Masur
Delivering Quality Demanding Services
R. Dal Molin, F. Marra, R. Muzza, A. Reale, E. Roddolo, M.R.
Spada, R. Gagliardi
FAIRWIS: A System for Improving On-line
Trade Fair Services
P. Buono, M.F. Costabile, A. D'Atri, M. Hemmje, G. Jaeschke,
C. Muscogiuri, E. Pauselli, F. Barbini
Modelling
Electronic Markets Preferences
Maria Joao VIAMONTE
and Carlos RAMOS
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Rua Sao Tome, 4200
Porto, Portugal
The Electronic Commerce (EC)
is one of the areas in which the technology of intelligent agents
can be successfully applied. An important ingredient in agent-mediated
EC is the presence of intelligent agents that assist EC participants.
For mediating agents a preference model of these participants
is indispensable. They must act as recommendation agents, making
predictions based on profiles and "business intelligence",
possibly supported by data mining techniques. The purpose of
this paper is to present a model for a virtual electronic Marketplace
more flexible than the existing on the Web, where users create
autonomous agents to buy and sell goods/services on their behalf.
Furthermore, we will discuss our view of user preference modelling
and its need in agent-mediated EC.
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B2B
eMarkets - An Analysing Framework
Bo LENNSTRAND(1), Martin
FREY(2) and Martin JOHANSEN(2)
(1) Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Sweden
(2) Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
This paper presents a B2B Analysing
Framework, created through the investigation of three questions:
How do B2B eMarkets create value? How can B2B eMarkets' business
strategies be described? How do market characteristics influence
the business model of a B2B eMarket? The paper reports from two
case studies, where this framework is applied on Swedish B2B
eMarkets within the food & beverage and fashion industries:
Merkantcom and TextileSolutions.
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Electronic
Markets for Services - Requirements and the Road to Success for
the Electronic Trade of C-Services
Hendrik HOECK and Stefan
BLECK
Research Institute for Operations Management (FIR) at Aachen
University of Technology
Pontdriesch 14/l 6, 52062 Aachen, Germany
New information and communication
technologies revolutionise competition in the information era
and cause radical changes of economic conditions in all branches.
They enhance not only the efficiency and productivity within
a company but also support cooperation and coordination between
companies, e.g. by means of electronic marketplaces. While there
are many strongly differentiated electronic marketplaces in the
goods sector, the electronic trade of services is still virtually
nonexistent. One reason is, that existing marketplaces do not
comply with service-specific requirements. In contrast to "traditional"
marketplaces, where goods are traded which were produced before,
electronic marketplaces for services must also accompany and
support the "production" of the traded services. For
this purpose, an electronic marketplace for services must offer
specific electronic market services such as knowledge storage,
service quality control and capacity planning.
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New
Challenges for e-Marketplaces, Relevant Solutions
Jerome PEZE
Tinubu Square, BP 375, 92541 Montrouge, France
Tinubu Square offers an innovative
solution to help marketplaces switch from today's unstable economic
model to a successful model offering added value services to
their customers. Indeed, successful marketplaces have to take
into account the specificity of dealing on the web together with
the requirements for traditional economy services.
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Concept
and Model for an Internet Broker Service for Bidding and Procurement
in the Tile Industry
Olaf PETERS, Jorg ZABEL,
Frithjof WEBER
Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science
(BIBA) at the
University of Bremen, P.O. Box 330560, D-28335 Bremen, Germany
This paper describes the efforts
to establish a broker service for tiles and related products
in the supply chain of the tile industry to innovate the bidding
and procurement processes. The actors, relations and goods of
the supply chain are presented and the chosen architecture for
the electronic marketplace and the supportive tools are described.
The core functionality of the broker service, e.g. data exchange,
repository access and negotiation, is outlined by means of UML
use cases.
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openXchange
- Framework for Integrated Business Processes and Methods for
Electronic Procurement and Marketplaces
Boris Otto
Fraunhofer IAO, Business Unit E-Procurement, Nobelstr. 12, 70569
Stuttgart, Germany
In current electronic business
environments, the exchange of business data does not only mean
to create formats for business documents but requires a broader
approach. The openXchange project combines the advantages of
both transaction standards and overlying business process frameworks
in order to enable efficient business process integration The
paper discusses the technological state-of-the-art in terms of
transaction standards and framework initiatives and gives a critical
evaluation of these. A presentation of the evaluation results
and a short overview of essential business requirements introduce
the openXchange approach and its objectives. The openXchange
project is based on two major aspects, namely the framework itself
and the development of a tool set for its practical applicability.
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FINMEDIARY
- A Financial Engineering Approach to Mediation in the Investment
Funding Process
Raniero CHELLI(1),
Natalia ALLEGRRTTI(2) and Fiorella GIACOMETTI(1)
(1) Sineura, via Egadi 3/5, 20144 Milan, Italy
(2) ETAss, European Trend Association, Corso Matteotti 38, 20038
Seregno (MI), Italy
The lack of sufficient "risk-
taking" entrepreneurial culture in Europe implies that good
new European ideas can often not be financed, developed and commercialised
in the EU, whereas an innovation, if it becomes commercially
successful, can potentially create thousands of jobs. Availability
of funding opportunities is vital in a world which is transforming
rapidly into a new economy and where creativity, access to finance
and to market are major competitiveness factors. It is a clear
evidence that one of the major barriers to development and growth
of SMEs is their poor access to investment funding both in their
own countries and even more in other areas of Europe where they
are seeking to expand.
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POEM:
A Platform for an Open Electronic Marketplace based on eCo Framework
Asuman DOGAC and Ibrahim
CINGIL
Software Research and Development Centre and Department of Computer
Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), 06531,
Ankara, Turkey
This paper describes an implementation
of an open market-place platform based on CommerceNet's eCo framework.
eCo is a specification for application interoperability and to
make it useml for market participants not only an implementation
but also several market specific services are necessary. In order
to make businesses eCo compliant, a set of XML documents are
needed describing businesses at all eCo levels. To facilitate
this, POEM provides a set of GUTS for each of the documents at
all levels. Once businesses participating in a marketplace are
made eCo compliant, their services become interoperable through
various interfaces that they provide. However, service composition
requires automated business process support. In POEM, this marketplace
specific service is provided through a component based workflow
system which also facilitate dynamic modification of processes.
eCo framework is message based which necessitates reliable message
passing. Furthermore in an electronic commerce process, certain
services or a part of a process may need to be transactional.
POEM provides those functionalities through message queues and
distributed transaction processing support respectively. Another
essential marketplace specific service is "negotiation"
among buyers and sellers. POEM supports common forms of negotiation
like auctions and reverse auctions.
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EASYCRAFT:
Towards a Trans-European E-Commerce Ambient in the Craft Sector
A.M. Assimakopoulos(1),
P.T. Parganas(2), M.A. Tzima(2) and D.I. Fotiadis(2)
(1) ENGATIA EPIRUS Foundation, GR 453 33 Ioannina, Greece
(2) Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, GR 451
10 Ioannina, Greece
The EASYCRAFT project is financed
by the Information Society Technologies Programme of the European
Commission. The project addresses the challenges faced by crafts
sector SMEs on a pan-European-basis, in order to increase their
competitiveness in the global marketplace. The main objective
is to develop an e-commerce platform that combines innovative
distributed technologies and a user-oriented approach, and is
tailored to the requirements of crafts sector participants. The
platform will offer support for collaborative work between players
in the crafts sector, advanced methods for product promotion,
personalised delivery of information to crafts consumers and
trading of crafts products. The applicability, acceptability
and impact of the platform will be assessed through trial operation
with the involvement of user partners. A detailed business plan
for the commercial exploitation of the EASYCRAFT System will
also be elaborated. The duration of the Project is 2 years. The
EGNATIA EPIRUS Foundation is the co-ordinator and the University
of Ioannina is the Technical Manager. Partners include companies
and organisations of the IT and crafts sectors in Greece, Belgium,
Germany and Finland.
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Combined
Internet Based Market and Engineering System for Laser Job Shops
Hans-Kurt TONSHOFF(1),
Andreas OSTENDORF(1), Adnan MUMBASIC(2) and Markus MASUR(2)
(1) Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hollerithallee 8, 30419 Hannover,
Germany
(2) ITM Research GmhH, Blucherstr. 32, 75177 Pforzheim, Germany
As sheet metal processing companies,
subcontracting small and medium sized laser job shops are important
suppliers for European major industries. Existing B2B market
places do not fulfil the technical requirements for subcontracting
sheet metal services. An e-commerce system is proposed to meet
the following objectives: i) to give job shops a chance to offer
their services European wide, ii) to make job shops performance
comparable for market participants, iii) to speed up negotiation
processes, iv) to ease the exchange of CAD data, v) to make the
system an European wide used market place. The market place meets
the specific needs of technological demanding processes. The
job shop's benefit is: easy access to potential customers, minimum
time for quoting, use of high-end Internet tools for exchanging
CAD data. The customers benefit will be to simplify inquiring
using standardised inquiry forms, to receive many offers for
one inquiry without additional efforts and to directly compare
the performance of different job shops.
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Delivering
Quality Demanding Services
Roberto DAL MOLIN(1), Franco MARRA(1)I, Riccardo MAZZA(1), Aniello
REALE(1), Enrico RODDOLO(1), Maria Rita SPADA(1), Roberto GAGLIARDI(2)
(1) Infostrada S.p.A, Via Jerk 77 10015 Ivrea (TO) - Italy
(2) META Centre Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, C.so Italia 116, 56125
Pisa, Italy
To clearly justify the need
for quality services, some considerations are made in section
2 regarding the current situation of the TLC market in Italy
and of the position of Infostrada in that market . A new role
for the Telco operator is then identified, along with the resulting
network architectural vision which is planned to be implemented
in the next few years. Entering in the description of the EU
V Frame Programme BASS project, section 3 provides a description
of the physical test plants and system configurations used to
test the application services, along with considerations of the
behaviour of ADSL links in presence of crosstalk noise. Section
4 deals with the two-level methodological approach followed in
the project development while section 5 (conclusion) contains
a brief assessment of the project results.
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FAIRWIS:
A System for Improving On-line Trade Fair Services
Paolo BUONO(1), Maria Francesca COSTABILE(1), Alessandro D'ATRIA(2),
Matthias HEMMJE(3), Gerald JAESCHKE(3), Claudio MUSCOGIURI(3),
Emanuela PAUSELLI(2), Francesco BARBINI(2)
(1) Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Bari, Bari, Italy
(2) CeRSI, LUISS "Guide Carli" University, Roma, Italy
(3) GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany
FAIRWIS is an EU funded project
that aims at offering on-line innovative services to support
business processes of both real and virtual trade fairs. This
paper describes some innovative features of FAIRWIS system, focusing
primarily on the generation of 2D and 3D visualizations that
are exploited to facilitate human-computer interaction, to allow
easy access to the stored data, and to present the retrieved
information in appropriate ways. The goal is to help the users
(fair organisers, exhibitors, visitors) in the different phases
of the decision making processes they may undergo to improve
their own business.
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