Exploring a framework for advanced electronic business transactions

With the emergence of service-oriented computing technology, companies embrace new ways of carrying out business transactions electronically. Since the parties involved in an electronic business transaction (eBT) manage a heterogeneous information-systems infrastructure within their organizational domains, the collaboration complexity is considerable and safeguarding an interorganizational collaboration with an eBT is difficult, but of high significance. This paper describes a conceptual framework that pays attention to the complexities of an eBT and its differentiating characteristics that go further than traditional database transactions. Since the eBT is a framework that comprises separate levels, pre-existing transaction concepts are explored for populating the respective levels. To show the feasibility of the described eBT framework, industry initiatives that are aspiring to become business-transaction standards, are checked for eBT compatible characteristics. Since realizing an eBT framework raises many tricky issues, the paper maps out important research areas that require scientific attention. Essentially, it is required to investigate how the business semantics influences the nature of an eBT throughout its lifecycle.Peer reviewe

A Hub System for Cloud-Computing Based Business-Collaboration : Automating Ontology-Enabled Electronic Business-Service Discovery

The management and coordination of business-process collaboration experiences changes because of globalization, specialization, and innovation. Service-oriented computing (SOC) is a means towards businessprocess automation and recently, many industry standards emerged to become part of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) stack. In a globalized world, organizations face new challenges for setting up and carrying out collaborations in semi-automating ecosystems for business services. For being efficient and effective, many companies express their services electronically in what we term business-process as a service (BPaaS). Companies then source BPaaS on the fly from third parties if they are not able to create all service-value inhouse because of reasons such as lack of reasoures, lack of know-how, cost- and time-reduction needs. Thus, a need emerges for BPaaS-HUBs that not only store service offers and requests together with information about their issuing organizations and assigned owners, but that also allow an evaluation of trust and reputation in an anonymized electronic service marketplace. In this paper, we analyze the requirements, design architecture and system behavior of such a BPaaS-HUB to enable a fast setup and enactment of business-process collaboration. Moving into a cloud-computing setting, the results of this paper allow system designers to quickly evaluate which services they need for instantiationg the BPaaS-HUB architecture. Furthermore, the results also show what the protocol of a backbone service bus is that allows a communication between services that implement the BPaaS-HUB. Finally, the paper analyzes where an instantiation must assign additional computing resources vor the avoidance of performance bottlenecks

The Writing Conference as a Medium for Teaching Academic Writing in English : Revising cohesion with L2 master’s students

Englannin asema tieteen valtakielenä vahvistuu jatkuvasti, mikä näkyy Suomessa esimerkiksi siten, että korkeakoulututkintojen opinnäytteet, erityisesti maisterintutkielmat kirjoitetaan yhä useammin englanniksi. Näiden tutkielmien kielellisen laadun kannalta on olennaista, että opiskelijat, joille englanti ei ole äidinkieli, saavat tukea tekstiensä kirjoittamiseen. Tässä tutkielmassa esitellään esimerkki siitä, miten tällaista tukea voidaan tarjota niin kutsutun writing conference -menetelmän avulla. Tutkimuskirjallisuudessa writing conference tarkoittaa vuorovaikutteista palautteenantomenetelmää, jossa opettaja ja oppilas käyvät kahdenkeskisen keskustelun oppilaan tekstistä tai kirjoittamisprosessista. Tarkoituksena on yleensä myös työstää yhdessä oppilaan tekstiä ja sitä kautta edistää oppilaan kirjoitustaidon kehittymistä. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan englanninkielisiin tutkielmateksteihin tehtyjä revisioita writing conference-tilanteessa, jossa englantia vieraana kielenä puhuvat maisteriopiskelijat muokkaavat tekstejään englantia äidinkielenään puhuvan kirjoittamisen opettajan johdolla. Tutkielman laajuuden rajaamiseksi analyysi kohdistuu yhteen akateemisen kirjoittamisen kannalta keskeiseen kielen piirteeseen eli koheesioon liittyviin revisioihin. Tavoitteena on selvittää, kuinka paljon koheesiopirteisiin puututaan, millaisia revisioita niihin tehdään ja millaisen roolin opettaja omaksuu revisioiden tekemisessä. Tutkimuksen aineisto on kerätty osana suomalaisessa yliopistossa pidettäviä writing conference -tapaamisia. Aineisto sisälsi kuusi tapaamista, joissa kussakin yksi insinööriopiskelija ja opettaja muokkasivat opiskelijan maisterintutkielman johdantolukua. Opettaja videoi tapaamiset tietokoneen ruudun nauhoitustoiminnolla siten, että muokattava teksti näkyi opettajan ruudulla ja tekstistä käyty keskustelu tallentui videolle. Videot ja niistä tehdyt litteraatit analysoitiin kvalitatiivisesti. Kustakin sessiosta koodattiin kaikki kahteen koheesiopiirteeseen, referenssiin ja konnektoreihin, liittyvät revisiot Hallidayn ja Hasanin (1976) koheesioteorian pohjalta, jonka jälkeen revisiot luokiteltiin neljään ryhmään. Tämän jälkeen analysoitiin, miten revisiot tehtiin keskittyen tyypillisiin piirteisiin opettajan toiminnassa. Tulokset osoittivat, että koheesioon puututtiin suhteellisen vähän. Koheesiotyypeistä enemmän puututtiin referenssiin. Noin puolet revisioista oli korvauksia (substitution) kun taas poistoja (deletion) tehtiin hyvin vähän. Opettajan tyypillisiä toimintatapoja revisioiden tekemisessä olivat kysymysten esittäminen, eri vahvuiset direktiivit, revisiotarpeiden selittäminen sekä joissain tapauksissa opetusmateriaalien käyttö. Tulosten valossa voidaan todeta, että writing conference -tapaamiset luovat potentiaalisen kanavan tutkielmatekstien laadun kohentamiselle sekä vieraan kielen kirjoitustaidon kehittämiselle, joten menetelmää voitaisi tulevaisuudessa käyttää laajemminkin akateemisen kirjoittamisen opetuksessa

A Hub Architecture For Service Ecosystems: Towards Business-to-Business Automation with an Ontology-Enabled Collaboration Platform

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Gambaran Pengetahuan Lansia Hipertensi Tentang Konsumsi Pisang Ambon Di Panti Sosial Lansia Harapan Kita Palembang

Background : Hypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure > 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure > 90 mmHg. The used of antihypertensive drugs is currently the treatment to overcome this problem. One of the solution can reduced high blood pressure is Ambon banana with the potassium content approximately 300mg / 100g. Aim of the research : To know about The Overview of Hypertension Elderly Knowledge about Ambon Banana Consumption at Panti Sosial Lansia Harapan Kita Palembang. Method : This research is quantitative with descriptive survey. The population in this study were all hypertensive elderly treated at the Panti Sosial Lansia Harapan Kita Palembang. Sampling using a total sampling technique with a total sample of 30 elderly. Results : The results of this study founded good knowledge of hypertensive elderly about the consumption of ambon bananas was 18 respondents (60%), low hypertension elderly knowledge of 12 respondents (40%), the elderly who never consumed ambon bananas in 1 week was 20 elderly (66.7%), rarely consumed 4 elderly people (13.3%), often consumed ambon banana as many as 4 elderly people (13.3%) and very often consuming only 2 elderly people (6.7%)

Designing Artificial Intelligence Equipped Social Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Tackling Sextortion Cases Version 0.7

With the rapid diffusion of social networks in combination with mobile phones, a new social threat of sextortion has emerged, in which vulnerable young women are essentially blackmailed with their explicit shared multimedia content. The phenomenon of sextortion is now widely studied by psychologists, sociologists, criminologists, etc. The findings have been translated into scattered help from NGOs, specialized law enforcement units, and therapists, who usually do not coordinate their efforts among each other. This paper addresses the gap of lacking coordination systems to effectively and efficiently use modern information technologies that align the efforts of scattered and non-aligned sextortion help organizations. Consequently, this paper not only investigates the goals, incentives, and disincentives for a system design and development that not only governs effectively and efficiently diverse cases of sextortion victims, but also leverages artificial intelligence in a targeted manner. It explores how AI and, in particular, autonomous cognitive entities can improve victim profiles analysis, streamline support mechanisms, and provide intelligent insight into sextortion cases. Furthermore, the paper conceptually studies the extent to which such efforts can be monetized in a sustainable way. Following a novel design methodology for the design of trusted blockchain decentralized applications, the paper presents a set of conceptual requirements and system models based on which it is possible to deduce a best-practice technology stack for rapid implementation deployment

EDOC2011 PhD Student Symposium Proceedings

Post-proceedings of the EDOC2011 PhD Student Symposium held in Helsinki 26.8.2011.Peer reviewe

A Framework for Service Outsourcing using Process Views

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The Machine-to-Everything (M2X) economy: business enactments, collaborations, and e-governance

Nowadays, business enactments almost exclusively focus on human-to-human business transactions. However, the ubiquitousness of smart devices enables business enactments among autonomously acting machines, thereby providing the foundation for the machine-driven Machine-to-Everything (M2X) Economy. Human-to-human business is governed by enforceable contracts either in the form of oral, or written agreements. Still, a machine-driven ecosystem requires a digital equivalent that is accessible to all stakeholders. Additionally, an electronic contract platform enables fact-tracking, non-repudiation, auditability and tamper-resistant storage of information in a distributed multi-stakeholder setting. A suitable approach for M2X enactments are electronic smart contracts that allow to govern business transactions using a computerized transaction protocol such as a blockchain. In this position paper, we argue in favor of an open, decentralized and distributed smart contract-based M2X Economy that supports the corresponding multi-stakeholder ecosystem and facilitates M2X value exchange, collaborations, and business enactments. Finally, it allows for a distributed e-governance model that fosters open platforms and interoperability. Thus, serving as a foundation for the ubiquitous M2X Economy and its ecosystem