Social commerce should make more efforts to retain existing customers. Shopping motivation which reflects the customers' behavior is one of the key factors to meet the users' needs. In order to attract customers, social commerce enterprise needs to better understand the shopping motivation. This study provided implications on social commerce business, service and consumer-oriented marketing str...

This paper depicts the evolution of enterprise architectures to their today often used service-oriented form and presents a state-of-the-art development process for this kind of architecture. The development process covers both the development of business architecture as well as the appropriate software architecture. While showing up a possible form of further evolution of enterprise architectu...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as an architectural style to foster enterprise interoperability, as it claims to facilitate the flexible composition of loosely coupled enterprise applications and thus alleviates the heterogeneity problem among enterprises. Meanwhile, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) aims at facilitating the development of distributed application functionality, in...

Developing an interoperable system is one of today’s challenging issues in ubiquitous enterprise systems. Initial Web Service-Oriented solutions have enabled the use and combination of distributed functional components within and across company boundaries, but they offer only syntactical description that failed to hold the promise of automatically interacting, dynamically composed web service. ...

Publish/subscribe is becoming increasingly popular as communication paradigm for loosely-coupled message exchange. It is used as a building block in major new software architectures and technology domains such as Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Application Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture and Event-Driven Architecture. The growing adoption of these technologies leads to a strong ne...

With current evolving technologies, there are significant strides in technologies that support distributed system automation in the electronic commerce domain. The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced technologies that promote automation and enactment in the electronic commerce domain. Moreover, with the addition of scaleable service-oriented computing practices, n...

Service-orientation has established as the dominating design principle of modern IT systems. Designing service-oriented systems involves different stakeholders who collaborate within the enterprise and requires a methodology suite that supports team-based development. This paper presents a PhD topic that aims to define the architecture and implement a tool-supported methodology suite that will ...

Organizations are moving rapidly towards Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Benefits include cost reduction through reuse, better integration through standardization, and new business opportunities through agility. The successful implementation of an SOA requires not only protocols and technologies like SOAP and WSDL but also support for the processes of creating, validating and managing se...

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is currently the most discussed concept for engineering enterprise IT architectures. True SOA is more than web services and web services style of communication. In the first place, it is a paradigm for structuring the business of an enterprise according to services. This allows companies to flexibly adapt to changing market demands. Subsequently, it is a para...

The migration to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a complex undertaking in terms of aligning business and IT concerns as well as analysis of technical aspects. Conceptual modeling can be helpful for supporting SOA migration by (1) bridging the gap between business and IT concerns, and (2) analyzing the as-is and to-be IT infrastructures. We contribute language requirements derived from ...