Advanced Information Technology Application in ERP Systems

Current Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) are used to track companies’ finances, human resources, and logistics. Upcoming market-driven requirements focus on outside connectivity and up-to-date information supply, including business-to-business support, e-commerce, and virtual enterprises. How can these requirements be met by applying emerging information technologies? This paper focuses on future development of ERP systems emphasizing on technical aspects of information technology application as enabler. It briefly discusses existing research approaches and potential research and development issues

Electronic Disclosure and Financial Knowledge Management

In this paper we report the benefits of using eXtended Markup Language (XML) to support financial knowledge management, which include indexing, organizing, association generation, cross-referencing, and retrieval of financial information to support the generation of knowledge. The current searching engines cannot provide sufficient performance, such as, recall, precision, extensibility, etc, to support users of financial information. XML is able to partially solve such problem by providing tags to create structures. XML provides a vendor-neutral approach to structure and organize contents. XML authors are allowed to create arbitrary tags to describe the format or structure of data, rather than restricted to a specific number of tags given in the specification of HTML. A prototype of XML-based ELectronic Financial Filing System (ELFFS-XML) has been developed to illustrate how to apply XML to model and add value to traditional HTML-based financial information by cross-linking related information from different data sources, which is an important step in moving from traditional information management to knowledge management. We compared the functionality of XML-based ELFFS with the original HTML-based ELFFS and SEDAR, an electronic filing system used in Canada, and recommended some directions for future development of similar electronic filing systems

A Component-based Framework for Distributed Business Simulations in E-Business Environments

Simulations preserve the knowledge of complex dynamic systems and consequently transfer the knowledge of the cohesions of its elements to a specified target group. As the progress in information technology and therefore the dynamic e-business driven economy adapts even faster to the business demands, new ways to preserve this growing amount of knowledge have to be found. This paper presents an extensible business simulation framework which is realized as a component-based distributed Java Version 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture. The framework aspires to offer an extensible and domain independent simulation environment which ensures the return of investment in the sense of implementing this framework once and extending it to the future requirements of diverse domains in e-business. The system architecture follows the requirements in offering distributed deployment of its components on highly standardized level by nevertheless staying vendor independent. The architecture itself was developed by model driven architecture (MDA)-conform software engineering methods using best of breed design patterns composed to a flexible micro-architecture which possess import facilities for simulation entities (business objects) and (business) processes from e-business solutions. Combining the features of the framework, the layered pattern driven micro-architecture, and the distributed J2EE architecture, the postulated knowledge transfer from rapid changes in e-business can be realized

From unstructured HTML to structured XML: how XML supports financial knowledge management on internet.

by Yuen Lok-tin.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-95).Abstracts in English and Chinese.ABSTRACT --- p.I摘要 --- p.IIIACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.VTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.VILIST OF FIGURES --- p.VIIILIST OF TABLES --- p.IXChapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Objectives --- p.2Chapter 1.3 --- Organization --- p.4Chapter 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW & THEORETICAL FOUNDATION --- p.6Chapter 2.1 --- "Data, Information and Knowledge" --- p.6Chapter 2.2 --- Knowledge Management --- p.7Chapter 2.3 --- Information Transparency and Efficiency --- p.10Chapter 2.3.1 --- Transparency --- p.11Chapter 2.3.2 --- Efficiency --- p.13Chapter 2.4 --- extensible markup language (XML) --- p.14Chapter 3 --- DIGITAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND ISSUES --- p.16Chapter 3.1 --- Managing Financial Information on the Internet --- p.17Chapter 3.2 --- Existing Electronic Financial Filing Systems --- p.20Chapter 3.3 --- Financial Document Disclosure Model --- p.21Chapter 3.4 --- Interaction Between Information Producers and Consumers --- p.23Chapter 3.5 --- Gluing All Together --- p.26Chapter 4 --- IDEAL ELECTRONIC FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE SYSTEM --- p.27Chapter 4.1 --- Structure and Representation of Knowledge --- p.28Chapter 4.2 --- Content Creation --- p.33Chapter 5 --- PROPOSED APPROACH --- p.36Chapter 5.1 --- Preliminary XML Data Dictionary --- p.36Chapter 5.2 --- Creation of XML Tags --- p.40Chapter 5.2.1 --- Statistical Information Retrieval --- p.41Chapter 5.2.2 --- Accounting and Auditing Practice --- p.43Chapter 5.2.3 --- Investors´ةFeedback --- p.44Chapter 5.3 --- Value-Added Services --- p.45Chapter 6 --- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ELFFS-XML --- p.49Chapter 6.1 --- Stages of ELFFS-XML --- p.49Chapter 6.1.1 --- Information Creation --- p.49Chapter 6.1.2 --- Information Collection/Storage --- p.50Chapter 6.1.3 --- Knowledge Generation --- p.51Chapter 6.1.4 --- Knowledge Dissemination/Presentation --- p.52Chapter 6.1.5 --- Feedback --- p.52Chapter 6.2 --- Components of ELFFS-XML --- p.53Chapter 6.2.1 --- Data Source Abstraction Layer --- p.55Chapter 6.2.2 --- Storage Abstraction Layer --- p.57Chapter 6.2.3 --- Logic Layer --- p.61Chapter 6.2.4 --- Presentation Layer --- p.63Chapter 7 --- EVALUATING ELFFS-XML --- p.66Chapter 7.1 --- Comparison with Other Financial Information Disclosure Systems --- p.66Chapter 7.2 --- Users' Evaluation --- p.70Chapter 7.3 --- Systems Efficiency --- p.71Chapter 7.4 --- XML Tag Generation Approach Performance Evaluation --- p.73Chapter 8 --- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH --- p.78APPENDIX I SURVEY ON INVESTMENT PATTERN --- p.80APPENDIX II CORE ELFFS-XML DTD --- p.84APPENDIX III PERFORMANCE RELATED XML TAGS --- p.86BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.8

Türkçe web belgelerinin kataloglanması: Bir işbirliği modeli önerisi

The First internet site have been online since August 1991, the number of website which made publishing in the internet exceeded 100 million. The internet began to be used in Turkey in the year of 1993 by ODTU studies. As of June 2008, there are 160.466 we site in our country. As the websites grew over the years, parallel to this the size of information was augmanted constaudey. The search engines used by and users utilize metadata for cataloging purpose. Metadata contains relevant data. The structure of web documents and their diversity requires the cataloging web documents. Despite of this situation in Turkey so far no studies have been produced to catalog web documents. It is obvius that created and produced information will increase and expedite production process when information is recorded, organized, shared and by way of feedback; it is converted into new information. By taking this into consideration, the cataloging of the Turkish web document has been examined in detail and a cooperative project has been developed in our thesis. The thesis consists of the following chapters; Chapter I.: Introduction. Chapter II.: Cataloging, the creation of the cataloging rules, AACR1 and AACR2,MARC, ISBD(ER), where the revisions and the cataloging are going concerning the electronic knowledge resources in AACR2. Chapter III.: Metadata which had been identified as cataloging in electronic media that had beenexamined in detail. Chapter IV: The electronic knowledge resources (e-book, e-magazine) cataloging had been treated. In Chapter V, after processing the www (web) and the web document in chapter VI, the cataloging regulations and arrangements depending on standards had been examined. Moreover the cooperative studies in cataloging of the web documents in the world also explicated in terms of setting a sample in our country. Chapter VII, the aspect of web documents cataloging in Turkey had been investigated. 52 State Universities, 24 Charitable Foundation Universities, 9 Other schools, 28 Public Institutions, 14 Ministries, 9 Daily Newspaper 76 University Libraries that we examined had not duly cataloged their web documents. In Chapter VIII, a collaboration project had been suggested in order to solve the problem of cataloging for the web documents in Turkish Language which had not been cataloged. In chapter IX, in the light of finding, effected to the result and the solution suggests had been presented

Unifying Heterogeneous Information Models

Abstract. With the explosion of the Web and the Internet, organizations can tap into into a vast variety of information sources to create new applications that increase the productivity and e ciency of its employees, customers, and partners. For example, consider an application that allows a salesman to check the nancial health of a customer's company (getting information from the Web), check if a customer has any outstanding bills (by examining the accounting database), nd new product o erings (from a products database), and check if a new product is available (by examining an inventory database). The di culty is in creating and maintaining such distributed applications. Information sources are distributed and independently managed, which results in sources with incompatible information models, and models that change dynamically. The traditional approach to creating and maintaining such applications requires a team of programmers. Software libraries can help unify the API of the di erent sources, however considerable programming e ort is required to unify the information models of the di erent sources. This is time consuming and expensive. This paper presents an alternative approach to building such distributed information applications, which involves providing meta-data speci cations of the information models of the sources and the user vocabulary. The system automatically deduces how to handle a request at run time by examining the machineprocessable meta-data speci cations. The distinctive feature of the proposed system is the expressiveness of the meta-data speci cation language, which enables sophisticated coordination, e.g., automatically decomposing complex requests into a sequence of simpler requests, and translating between the user vocabulary and the information model of a source. This replaces the programming e ort which must prescribe how to handle each request for a xed and static con guration of information sources. Automated coordination based on meta-data can reduce cost, increase e ciency, and enable a larger class of users to take advantage of the available information.