A theoretical foundation of demand driven web services
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Demand-driven web services p. 1-32
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- Description: Web services are playing a pivotal role in business, management, governance, and society with the dramatic development of the Internet and the Web. However, many fundamental issues are still ignored to some extent. For example, what is the unified perspective to the state-of-the-art of Web services? What is the foundation of Demand-Driven Web Services (DDWS)? This chapter addresses these fundamental issues by examining the state-of-the-art of Web services and proposing a theoretical and technological foundation for demand-driven Web services with applications. This chapter also presents an extended Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), eSMACS SOA, and examines main players in this architecture. This chapter then classifies DDWS as government DDWS, organizational DDWS, enterprise DDWS, customer DDWS, and citizen DDWS, and looks at the corresponding Web services. Finally, this chapter examines the theoretical, technical foundations for DDWS with applications. The proposed approaches will facilitate research and development of Web services, mobile services, cloud services, and social services.
Analytics service oriented architecture for enterprise information systems
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Strang, Kenneth , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 16th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
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- Description: Big data analytics and business analytics are disruptive technology and innovative solution for enterprise development. However, what is the relationship between big data analytics and business analytics? What is the relationship between business analytics and enterprise information systems (EIS)? How can business analytics enhance the development of EIS? These are still big issues for EIS development. This paper addresses these three issues by proposing an ontology of business analytics, presenting an analytics service-oriented architecture (ASOA) and applying ASOA to EIS, where our surveyed data analysis showed that the proposed ASOA can enhance to develop EIS. This paper also discusses the interrelationship between data analysis and business analytics, and between data analytics and big data analytics. The proposed approaches in this paper will facilitate research and development of EIS, business analytics, big data analytics, and business intelligence.
Handbook of research on demand-driven web services : Theory, technologies, and applications
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Edited book
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A technique for ranking friendship closeness in social networking services
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Yearwood, John , Firmin, Sally
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) p. 1-9
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- Description: The concept of friend and friendship are critical to both theoretical and empirical studies of social relations, social media and social networks. Measuring the closeness among friends is a big issue for developing online social networking services (SNS) such as Facebook. This paper will address this issue by proposing a technique for ranking friendship closeness in SNS. The technique consists of an algorithm for ranking need-driven friendship closeness and an algorithm for behaviour-based friendship closeness in online social networking sites. The former is based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, while the latter is based on behaviours of users on Facebook and TOPSIS. Examples provided illustrate the viability of the proposed algorithms. The research in this paper shows that ranking friendship closeness will facilitate understanding of needs and behaviours of friends and of friendships in SNS. The proposed approach will facilitate research and development of social media, social commerce, social networks, and SN
Integrating online social networks with e-Commerce : A CBR approach
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Firmin, Sally , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: Integrating online social networks (OSN) with e-commerce is a part of Enterprise 2.0 and social media and is of significance for development of e-commerce and online social networking services. However, how to integrate online social networks including Facebook with e-commerce is still a big issue for companies. Case based reasoning (CBR) has a number of successful applications in e-commerce and web services. This article examines how to integrate OSN with e-commerce, how to integrate CBR with e-commerce and how to integrate CBR with OSN. This article also proposes a CBR architecture for integrating online social networks with e-commerce using CBR as an intelligent intermediary. One of the research findings indicates that the principle of CBR is a useful marketing strategy for integrating e-commerce and OSN. The approach proposed in this research will facilitate the development of e-commerce, Enterprise 3.0 and online social networking services. Sun, Firmin, & Yearwood © 2012.
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Case based web services
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Finnie, Gavin , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy p. 871-882
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- Description: Web services are Internet-based application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols (Singh & Huhns, 2005). Web services can be also considered the provision of services over electronic networks such as the Internet and wireless networks (Rust & Kannan, 2003). Web services is a new computing paradigm that has drawn increasing attention in information technology (Deitel, et al, 2004, p.13), information systems, and is playing a pivotal role in service computing and service intelligence (Singh & Huhns, 2005). Web services is a new business paradigm that is playing an important role in e-business, ecommerce and business intelligence (Wang, et al, 2006). The key motive for the rapid development of web services is the ability to discover services that fulfil users’ demands, negotiate service contracts and have the services delivered where and when the users request them (Tang, et al, 2007). The current research trend is to add intelligent techniques to web services to facilitate discovery, invocation, composition, and recommendation of web services (Wang, et al, 2006)
Demand driven web services
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Dong, Dong , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Service intelligence and service science: Evolutionary technologies and challenges p. 35-55
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- Description: Web services are playing a pivotal role in e-business, service intelligence, and service science. Demand-driven web services are becoming important for web services and service computing. However, many fundamental issues are still ignored to some extent. For example, what is the demand theory for web services, what is a demand-driven architecture for web services and what is a demand-driven web service lifecycle remain open. This chapter addresses these issues by examining fundamentals for demand analysis in web services, and proposing a demand-driven architecture for web services. It also proposes a demand-driven web service lifecycle for the main players in web services: Service providers, service requestors and service brokers, respectively. It then provides a unified perspective on demand-driven web service lifecycles. The proposed approaches will facilitate research and development of web services, e-services, service intelligence, service science and service computing.
- Description: 2003009207