RWU Engineering Expert Partners with PowerDocks to Design Off-Grid Clean-Energy Power Stations for Autonomous Robots

Assistant Professor of Engineering Charles Thangaraj will lead collaborative project funded by an Innovation Voucher from the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation

A Collaborative Framework for Collaborative Commerce

This article proposes a collaborative framework for the process of collaborative commerce (c-commerce) through which prospective partners could employ and configure c-commerce technologies according to the needs of different stages to realize potential benefits promised by the next generation of enterprise application software. This framework details pre-conditions that lead prospective partners to establish a collaborative relationship, including structural, social-psychological, and technological factors. This framework also describes how collaboration in c-commerce is unfolded following a teamwork problem-solving model. Furthermore, the framework discusses a variety of possible outcomes resulting from an initiative of collaborative commerce. Those components of collaborative commerce are structured in the format of the input-process-output model

Research on Collaborative Commerce Model Based on Web Services

The concept of collaborative commerce was put forward by Gartner Group in 1999, and Web Services becomes one of the best implementation technologies of collaborative commerce for that it is loose-coupled, based on open standards and etc. In this paper, based on service oriented architecture of Web Services, we construct collaborative commerce model, analyze business process integration of collaborative commerce and design the implementation way of conversation mechanism in transaction process

Collaborative Commerce

Following the evolution of electronic business, collaborative commerce uses information technology to achieve a closer integration and a better management of business relationships among parties including internal personnel, business partners and customers. Recently, market and globalisation competition, customer oriented service strategy and product complexity have pushed enterprises a step further on in collaborative commerce. In brief, collaborative commerce is (1) a collaborative technology – similar to workflow collaboration, (2) a customer-driven technology – similar to a pull-type supply chain, (3) a functionally-integrated technology – similar to concurrent engineering and (4) a businessdriven technology – similar to enterprise resource planning, for cross-organisational integration. The paper will illustrate the technologies and the critical success factors of collaborative commerce adoption

A Proposed Framework for Influencing Factors of Partnership in E-Taiwan Collaborative Commerce

This paper attempts to integrate concepts of a collaborative commerce and inter-organizational relationship to build a framework for influencing factors of e-Taiwan collaborative commerce partnership and empirically explore it. The importance for five dimensions of the Research Model based on seven top representatives of interviewed six Taiwanese companies engaged in E-Taiwan is summarized. Statistical analysis is used to decide which factors are vital for the success in three phases of partnership in e-Taiwan. Data are collected through a survey of organizations that are actively involved in the planning or operation of E-Taiwan collaborative commerce. The result has been shown the influencing factors are not the same in three phases of partnership in this collaborative commerce. It implies that to manage a collaborative commerce must have different strategies to select, develop, and maintain participants

Agent-supported cooperative learning environments

We survey our research on (3D) virtual environments inhabited by agents that help visitors to get information and to get a tusk done. The main ideas and designs can be tuned to different applications, including information und transaction services (e-commerce), collaborative work and educational domains

An E-Logistics Model for Effective Collaborative Commerce

Collaborative Commerce (C-Commerce) is the name given to commercial relationships carried out over a collaborative framework to integrate enterprises’ business processes, share customer relationships and manage knowledge across enterprise boundaries. This is a business strategy that leverages the extensive reach of the Internet. C-Commerce places emphasis on supply chain involvement where members of the supply chain work together to design, build, market and deploy products and services. Collaborative commerce is the next generation of E-commerce framework. E-logistics is the mechanism of automating the logistics processes and providing an integrated, end-to-end fulfillment and supply chain management service to the players of logistics processes. This paper attempts to design an integrated framework for an E-logistics model that it can be effectively employed for C-Commerce

Efficacy of Communication Support in Collaborative Online Shopping: The Moderating Effect of Task Types

With the widespread popularity of social media such as Facebook and Twitter, social commerce is generating much hype in business and is attracting a lot of attention in academia. Social commerce integrates e-commerce and social communication/media. In this research, our focus is on collaborative online shopping. This research-in-progress paper outlines an experimental study to investigate the effect of communication support and task types on collaborative online shopping. Media Richness Theory (MRT) and Task-Media Fit (TMF) form the theoretical foundation of this research. As a pioneering research to investigate the interaction effect of communication support and task types in collaborative online shopping, we expect this research to contribute to a better understanding of the design and development of collaborative online shopping websites

Analisis dan Implementasi Metode Collaborative Analysis of Requirement and Design (CARD) pada Pembangunan Website E-commerce

Seiring dengan perkembangan Internet pada beberapa tahun terakhir mengakibatkan timbul prospek besar dalam bisnis online [ 14 ]. Salah satu bisnis yang dapat dilakukan adalah dengan e - commerce. E - commerce adalah kegiatan menjual dan memb eli informasi, produk, da n jasa lewat jaringan komputer[ 14 ]. Website adalah media yang digunakan dalam implementasi e - commerce. Website e - commerce menjadi bagian penting dalam m enunjang kesuksesan perusahaan[ 8 ]. Namun, banyak website e - commerce tidak dime ngerti oleh pengguna karena pengguna tidak dapat menemukan apa yang mereka cari. Selain itu, website e - commerce masih suli t digunakan[ 8 ]. Pengguna yang tidak dapat menemukan apa yang dicari dalam website e - commerce tentu akan menurunkan usabilitas dari web site tersebut. Oleh karena itu diperlukan perancangan desain yang dapat dimengerti pengguna agar pengguna dapat menemukan produk yang dicari dengan mudah. Metode Collaborative Analysis of Requirement and Design dapat digunakan untuk menyelesaikan permasa lahan desain. Metode Collaborative Analysis of Requirement and Design merupakan salah satu teknik pada user centered design. Metode Collaborative Analysis of Requirement and Design ini berfokus pada pengguna, karena dalam proses nya melibatkan pengguna dan pengguna adalah sumber informasi dari metode ini. Informasi yang diperoleh dari pengguna didapatkan dari hasil wawancara, kuesioner dan percobaan dengan urutan komponen. Hasil yang diharapkan adalah pengguna dapat mengerti mekanisme sistem bekerja dan des ain yang lebih dimengerti pengguna. website, Collaborative Analysis of Requirement and Design , User Centered Design, informas