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Anonymous reputation based reservations in e-commerce (AMNESIC)
Online reservation systems have grown over the last recent
years to facilitate the purchase of goods and services. Generally,
reservation systems require that customers provide
some personal data to make a reservation effective. With
this data, service providers can check the consumer history
and decide if the user is trustable enough to get the reserve.
Although the reputation of a user is a good metric to implement
the access control of the system, providing personal
and sensitive data to the system presents high privacy risks,
since the interests of a user are totally known and tracked
by an external entity. In this paper we design an anonymous
reservation protocol that uses reputations to profile
the users and control their access to the offered services, but
at the same time it preserves their privacy not only from the
seller but the service provider
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Integrating information and knowledge for enterprise innovation
It has widely been accepted that enterprise integration, can be a source of socio-technical and cultural problems within organisations wishing to provide a focussed end-to-end business service. This can cause possible âstraitjacketingâ of business process architectures, thus suppressing responsive business re-engineering and competitive advantage for some companies. Accordingly, the current typology and emergent forms of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies are set in the context of understanding information and knowledge integration philosophies. As such, key influences and trends in emerging IS integration choices, for end-to-end, cost-effective and flexible knowledge integration, are examined. As touch points across and outside organisations proliferate, via work-flow and relationship management-driven value innovation, aspects of knowledge refinement and knowledge integration pose challenges to maximising the potential of innovation and sustainable success, within enterprises. This is in terms of the increasing propensity for data fragmentation and the lack of effective information management, in the light of information overload. Furthermore, the nature of IS mediation which is inherent within decision making and workflow-based business processes, provides the basis for evaluation of the effects of information and knowledge integration. Hence, the authors propose a conceptual, holistic evaluation framework which encompasses these ideas. It is thus argued that such trends, and their implications regarding enterprise IS integration to engender sustainable competitive advantage, require fundamental re-thinking
A Framework for M-Commerce Implementation in Nigeria
The Internet has brought about the concept of grobalilation, which has
revolutionized the way business is transacted all over the world. The E-comnterce
is of particular interest, though widely used but still has some security challenges
in terms of transparency and confidentiality of transactiorts. This papei focuses
on M-contnrcrce as an extensiott to E-commerce hnplementatiott with the Bankiltg
industry proposed as core implementation consideration in ortler to guarantee
high level security. We have reviewed some cqses of onlilrc frauds and eliscussed
tlte emerging critical issues afficting software development of M-cornmerce
applicatiotts. Afranrcworkfor M-commerce implementationis therefore,proposed
for countries such as Nigeria, Romania and Indonesia where cases of online
scam are alanning
Encryption â use and control in E-commerce
The author describes how cryptography can be used to address modern business requirements such as identity protection, secure web access and digital signatures. Article by Robert Bond (Head of Innovation & Technology Group, Hobson Audley and Fellow of SALS). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
SOLACE: A framework for electronic negotiations
Copyright @ 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbHMost existing frameworks for electronic negotiations today are tied to specific negotiation systems for which they were developed, preventing them from being applied to other negotiation scenarios. Thus, the evaluation of electronic negotiation systems is difficult as each one is based on a different framework. Additionally, each developer has to design a new framework for any system to be developed, leading to a âreinvention of the wheelâ. This paper presents SOLACEâa generic framework for multi-issue negotiations, which can be applied to a variety of negotiation scenarios. In contrast with other frameworks for electronic negotiations, SOLACE supports hybrid systems in which the negotiation participants can be humans, agents or a combination of the two. By recognizing the importance of strategies in negotiations and incorporating a time attribute in negotiation proposals, SOLACE enhances existing approaches and provides a foundation for the flexible electronic negotiation systems of the future
Kesan pembelajaran koperatif terhadap pencapaian pendidikan alam sekitar dalam kalangan pelajar sekolah menengah rendah
Pembelajaran koperatif merupakan satu teknik pembelajaran yang melibatkan
pelajar bekerjasama dalam satu kumpulan untuk mencapai matlamat tertentu.
Dalam topik Pendidikan Alam Sekitar, pelajar didapati agak lemah dalam
memahami sesuatu istilah dan tidak dapat mengaitkan topik dengan pengalaman
serta persekitaran mereka. Sebelum ini, pengajaran dan pembelajaran lebih
berpusatkan guru. Pembelajaran koperatif pula hanya melibatkan mata pelajaran
yang menggunakan makmal atau bengkel. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meninjau
kesan pembelajaran berkumpulan terhadap pencapaian pelajar dalam Pendidikan
Alam Sekitar melalui mata pelajaran Geografi. Bentuk kajian yang digunakan ialah
kuasi-eksperimen yang dijalankan dengan menggunakan ujian pra dan ujian pasca
ke atas kumpulan eksperimen dan kumpulan kawalan. Sampel kajian adalah dua
kumpulan pelajar tingkatan 1 dari Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Luar Bandar di
negeri Johor. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 37 orang pelajar kumpulan eksperimen
dan 35 orang pelajar kumpulan kawalan. Kumpulan eksperimen merupakan
kumpulan yang menggunakan kaedah pembelajaran koperatif manakala kumpulan
kawalan diajar tanpa pembelajaran koperatif. Instrumen kajian ialah ujian
pencapaian, borang soal selidik, jadual pemerhatian dan temubual. Hasil kajian
mendapati min pencapaian kumpulan eksperimen adalah tinggi iaitu 18.16
berbanding dengan min kumpulan kawalan, iaitu 13.91. Dapatan kajian
menunjukkan terdapat peningkatan pencapaian bagi pelajar yang menjalani
pembelajaran koperatif berbanding dengan pelajar yang tidak mengamalkan kaedah
pembelajaran tersebut. Pelajar juga dapat menerima penggunaan pembelajaran
koperatif dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Kesimpulannya,
pembelajaran koperatif bukan sahaja dapat meningkatkan hasil malah dapat
meningkatkan kualiti proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran
Health informatics domain knowledge analysis: An information technology perspective
Health Informatics is an intersection of information technology, several disciplines of medicine and health care. It sits at the common frontiers of health care services including patient centric, processes driven and procedural centric care. From the information technology perspective it can be viewed as computer application in medical and/or health processes for delivering better health care solutions. In spite of the exaggerated hype, this field is having a major impact in health care solutions, in particular health care deliveries, decision making, medical devices and allied health care industries. It also affords enormous research opportunities for new methodological development. Despite the obvious connections between Medical Informatics, Nursing Informatics and Health Informatics, most of the methodologies and approaches used in Health Informatics have so far originated from health system management, care aspects and medical diagnostic. This paper explores reasoning for domain knowledge analysis that would establish Health Informatics as a domain and recognised as an intellectual discipline in its own right
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