Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems: IFIP TC2 / WG2.6 Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics April 25–28, 2001, Hong Kong (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 111)

E-commerce systems involve a complex interaction between Web Based Internet related software, application software and databases. It is clear that the success of e-commerce systems is going to be dependent not only on the technology of these systems but also on the quality of the underlying databases and supporting processes. Whilst databases have achieved considerable success in the wider marketplace, the main research effort has been on tools and techniques for high volume but based on relatively simplistic record management. The modern advanced e-commerce systems require a paradigm shift to allow the meaningful representation and manipulation of complex business information on the Web and Internet. This requires the development of new methodologies, environments and tools to allow one to easily understand the underlying structure to facilitate access, manipulation and modification of such information. An essential characteristic to gain understanding and interoperability is a clearly defined semantics for e-commerce systems and databases. The focus of this volume is therefore on those issues of e-commerce systems that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored and manipulated by these systems. This not only includes methodologies for application domain modeling, formal representations of e-commerce aspects of knowledge, the role of semantics, Internet based transmission and display of data, etc. but also issues in user interfacing and process modeling, architectures that better enable integrity, consistency, interoperation reuse of components, or reports on prototypes illustrating new aspects of such systems from a semantically relevant viewpoint. Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems comprises the proceedings of the Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Hong Kong in April 2001. This volume will be essential for researchers and practitioners working in the areas of database management, information retrieval and data mining, and user interfaces, as applied to e-commerce. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Contracts in E-Commerce....Pages 3-17 The Role of Contract and Component Semantics in Dynamic E-Contract Enactment Configuration....Pages 19-33 A Dynamic License Agreement System for Reuse of Web Contents....Pages 35-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Secure E-Commerce Transactions, Modeling and Implementation Aspects....Pages 53-67 From Call for Tenders to Sealed-Bid Auction for Mediated Ecommerce....Pages 69-86 Web Notary Systems for Privacy Keeping E-Commerce....Pages 87-101 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Seamless Integration of Inquiry and Transactional Tasks in Web Applications....Pages 105-119 An XML-Based Interorganizational Knowledge Mediation Scheme to Support B2B Solutions....Pages 121-135 Views for Inter-organization Workflow in an E-commerce Environment....Pages 137-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Capturing the Semantics of Web Log Data by Navigation Matrices....Pages 155-169 Discovery of Semantic Relationships among Web Pages Based on Web Topic Structures....Pages 171-185 WebSifter: An Ontological Web-Mining Agent for E-Business....Pages 187-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Infomediation for E-business enabled Supply Chains: A Semantics Based Approach....Pages 205-219 An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogs for B2B Electronic Commerce....Pages 221-235 A Model to Support E-Catalog Integration....Pages 237-251 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 The IRules Project....Pages 255-275 Towards a Semantic Framework for Service Description....Pages 277-291 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 A Model-Based Approach to Web-Application Development....Pages 295-309 The Importance of Ownership for E-Commerce....Pages 311-326 Constraints as Mobile Specifications in E-Commerce Applications....Pages 327-341 Back Matter....Pages 343-343 Preface Committees, Reviewers and Sponsors Session I: Contracts. 1 Session II: Security Issues Session III: Process Interoperability Session IV: Semantics Mining Session V: Using Metadata for Integration Session VI: Service Integration Session VII: Application Modeling Author Index.