This paper proposes Social Landscapes, a visual interface which supports exploring by visually displaying histories of user and interrelations between users in a social networking site. Social Landscapes visualizes the activities of each user through diary postings and the access status to online services, and the number of comments to the diary as landscape scenery. We describe a case study th...

The ageing of the population, the growth of chronic diseases, and the explosion of healthcare costs jeopardise the sustainability of healthcare systems in many European countries. This opens opportunities for innovative prevention and healthcare services supported by information and communication technologies (ICT). The natural focus for providing such services is the home. However, the ehealth...

This research lies in using science and information technology to improve the existing investment framework. A framework, called EFPIF (e-Financial Process Integration Framework), was proposed that can come to financial information and investment analysis integration, and provide an interaction framework to investors, investment advisory corporation, dealer in securities, bank, and quoted compa...

We demonstrate a set of tools to design and test business models for new IT. These models can be used to design business processes and specify use cases for IT systems.

e-Services are just like normal services, but can be ordered and provisioned via the Internet completely. Increasingly, these e-services are offered as a multi-supplier bundle of elementary services. How to automatically compose and prioritize these multi-supplier e-service bundles is considered as a key problem. In this paper, we present the eservice ontology to represent a multi-supplier e-se...

Despite the proliferation of e-services, they are still characterized by uncertainties. As result, consumer trust beliefs are considered an important determinant of e-service adoption. Past work has not however considered the potentially dynamic nature of these trust beliefs, and how early-stage trust might influence later-stage adoption and use. To address this gap, this study draws on the the...

Remote sensing satellite data are vast, various, time sensitive and with wide users. How to delivery satellite data and products to users effectively is an important problem facing satellite department. Blueprint has been widely applied in improving service process. It’s a useful method to optimize allocation of resources and improve service quality. This article analyzes the service process of...

In an e-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Workflow inter-operability is therefore an important issue for workflow enactment in such an environment. In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of workflow views as a fundamental support for E-service workflow inter-operability and for controlled visibility by external par...