Infrastructure for E-Business on the Internet
Veljko M. Milutinović · 2001
Demands of the techno-economic domain represent challenges of the engineering research. In other words, when business applications create specific new needs, technical bottlenecks get created, and can be resolved only if appropriate research efforts is invested. However, once one bottleneck gets resolved, immediately the new ones get open. In other words, this is a constantly going process. Certain problems are created, and as soon as they are solved, the conditions are preset for new problems to appear. In such conditions, business and research are both in the same evergoing circle, helping each other to advance. When working on problems in one field, knowledge from other (more or less remote) fields can be of considerable help. This is especially the case if the fields are tangential, or if there is a well-defined analogy between two fields. Of course, when porting solutions from one research field into the other, one has to be extremely careful. Problems that appear to be analogous may be quite different in their essence, which would require completely different approaches to their solution. Having all above in mind, in this minitrack an effort was made to shed more light on a number of problems of importance for the field of electronic business on the Internet (EBI).The minitrack consists of six papers that cover a broad range of aspects concerning the Electronic Business on the Internet: Research and Development in the E-Business on the Internet, V. Milutinovic, et al, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, [email protected]; A Methodology for Creating e-Business Strategy, Dawn Jutla, Faculty of Commerce, Saint Mary's University, Canada, [email protected]; James Craig, Aliant, Canada, [email protected]; Peter Bodorik, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada, [email protected]; Internet-Based Delivery and Deployment of Document Management Systems, Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, [email protected]; Jim Sheen, CyLex Systems, Boca Raton, Florida; Zijad Aganovic, CyLex Systems, Boca Raton, Florida; The Role of Structured Content in a Personalized News Service, Sami Jokela, Helsinki University of Technology/Andersen Consulting, Center For Strategic Technology Research (CSTaR), [email protected]; Marko Turpeinen, MIT Media Laboratory/Alma Media Corp., [email protected]; Teppo Kurki, Helsinki University of Technology/Alma Media Corp., [email protected]; Eerika Savia, Helsinki University of Technology/Done Wireless Oy, [email protected]; Reijo Sulonen, Helsinki University of Technology, [email protected]; XML Data Mediation and Collaboration: A Proposed Comprehensive Architecture and Query Requirements for Using to Mediate Heterogeneous Data Sources and Targets, Paul Benjamin Lowry, University of Arizona, [email protected]; The University of Pisa Project on E-Business Infrastructure, Pierfrancesco Foglia, Roberto Giorgi, Antonio Prete, [email protected]; University of Pisa, Italy