Flexible Decision Making in Web Services Negotiation

2006 ◽  
pp. 108-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonglei Yao ◽  
Fangchun Yang ◽  
Sen Su
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Services

The Next Generation of Shopbots

2011 ◽  
pp. 19-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Fasli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Comparison Shopping ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Immense Potential

The huge growth of e-commerce has had a profound impact on users who can now choose from a vast number of options online. Inevitably, as the number of choices has increased, so has the need for tools to help users organize, manage and utilize information on these for better decision-making. Comparison shopping agents or shopbots can help users decide what to buy and enhance their online shopping experience. However, despite the high expectations, the immense potential of shopbots has not been fully realized. In this chapter, the author identifies the limitations and drawbacks of current shopbots, in particular, with regard to the underlying technology for building such systems. She then discusses how these technical limitations can be overcome by making use of the Semantic Web and Web Services. She also considers how shopbots can truly serve the user by providing personalized, impartial and flexible services.

Exploring Marketing Theories to Model Business Web Service Procurement Behavior

2015 ◽  
pp. 1911-1940
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Strang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Service Ontology ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Personal Context ◽  
Decision Making Behavior ◽  
Service Procurement

This chapter provides literature-grounded definitions of contemporary Web services and marketing theories, which can model business demand through procurement decision-making behavior. First, the literature was reviewed to identify contemporary Web 2.0 and Web service ontology alongside marketing theories, which can describe individual decision making in an organizational or personal context. The Web services included cloud computing, social networking, data storage, security, and hosted applications. Then selected models for assessing procurement decision-making behavior were discussed in more detail. The constructed grounded theory method was applied by interviewing Chief Information Officers (CIO) at large organizations across four industries in the USA: healthcare, higher education, energy creation, and banking. The purpose was to determine which marketing theories could effectively model their Web service procurement behavior. An empirical procurement decision-making model was developed and fitted with data collected from the participants. The results indicated that Web service procurement decision-making behavior in businesses could easily be modeled, and this was ratified by the CIOs. The chapter proposes a state-of-the-art ontology and model for continued empirical research about organizational procurement decision-making behavior for Web services or other products.

Adoption of Web Services in Digital Libraries

2010 ◽  
pp. 307-320
Author(s):  
Fatih Oguz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Complex Procedure ◽  
Research Problems

This chapter describes a research study with an objective to explore and describe decision factors related to technology adoption. The study utilized theories of diffusion of innovations and communities of practice as frameworks and a case study of Web services (WS) technology in the digital library (DL) environment to develop an understanding of the decision-making process. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the research problems and data was collected through semistructured interviews, documentary evidence (e.g., meeting minutes), and a comprehensive member check. Face-to-face and phone interviews were conducted with respondents from five different DL programs in the U.S., selected based on distinctive characteristics (e.g., size of the DL program). Findings of the research suggest that the decision-making process is a complex procedure in which a number of factors are considered when making WS adoption decisions. These factors are categorized as organizational, individual, and technology-specific factors.

3D Web Services for Visualization and Data Sharing in 3D Cadastre

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ali Zare Zardiny ◽  
Farshad Hakimpour
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Formal System ◽  
On Demand ◽  
3D Cadastre ◽  
Land Use Rights ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
3D Web

Land has an essential role in any society, either as one of the most important capitals of mankind or as a place for people's life and activities. Therefore, registration of ownership and land use rights in a formal system is a major issue. In different countries, Cadastre systems can register extent, rights, restrictions and responsibilities related to land parcels. Many organizations such as municipality, tax and banks need to this information for planning and decision making. Considering the needs for land information by different organizations, access to cadastre data gains a lot of importance. Despite this importance, access to cadastre information encounter with different challenges such as differences in platforms or data structures and access to semantic and geometric data. The main goal of this research is to overcome these challenges and to improve the interoperability in sharing and accessing 3D cadastre data and challenges. This paper investigates capabilities of current 3D Spatial Web Services: WFS, WVS, WTS and W3DS as well as advantages of using these 3D services for access to 3D cadastre data. The authors also combined the legal classes of LADM with geometrical classes of CityGML for transferring the semantic and geometric cadastre data. Finally, some prospects of using 3D Web Services will be illustrated through implementation the scenarios. The most important advantages of using 3D Spatial Web Services in cadastre are on the fly construction and on demand presentation of 3D cadastral model, facilitating of access to legal and descriptive cadastre information, no necessity to user's awareness of data structure in cadastre database and compatibility with different levels of users.

scholarly journals Customer Decision Making in Web Services

2012 ◽  
pp. 210-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaohao Sun ◽  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Dong Dong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
P Elements ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Business Web ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
Case Based

Web services play an important role in successful business integration and other application fields such as e-commerce and e-business. Customer decision making (CDM) is an indispensable factor for e-business and Web services. This chapter examines customer decision making in Web services. More specifically, it first looks at decision making in Web services, and proposes a novel P6 model for CDM in Web services, which consists of 6 Ps: privacy, perception, propensity, preference, personalization, and promised experience. This model integrates the existing 6 P elements of marketing mix as the environment of customer decision making in Web services. The new integrated P6 model deals with the inner world of the customer for decision making (DM) and incorporates what the customer sees and thinks during a DM process. The purpose of this novel P6 model is to assist customers in the decision process to acquire the most satisfactory Web service. This chapter also examines case-based decision making in Web services and provides a theoretical foundation for case-based decision making under the condition of one problem with multiple solutions in Web services. The proposed approach will facilitate research and development of e-business, Web services, decision support systems, intelligent systems, and soft computing.

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