Business Intelligence (BI) plays important roles in executive decision making in organizations. Up-to-date information from good data sources always gives advantages to the organization. Nowadays, information in Semantic Webs is considered important source of BI data. It provides machine readable information using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). To perform BI activities on RDF documen...

The aim of this paper is to use historical insights from modern commerce as entry points to examine the macro-level phenomena associated with electronic commerce (EC). Commerce in its modern form first appeared in early 13 century Italy where conducive political conditions existed. Trade facilitated the exchange of goods, thereby enhancing the efficiency of processes between production and cons...

this research was performed to recognize the ways ofbusiness model designing and explaining about the use of businessmodel in technology-oriented firms and enterprises, and leads them towands the implementation of the plans and new ideas in order to enter tolabor market or maintenance of their situation in internal and globalmarkets. the essay was considering the concept of business model andth...

The need for unpredicted, real-time changes in the business process is increasing tremendously. However, a well-founded approach for representing these processes in an executable form is missing. In this position paper we introduce the concept of the event-driven ad-hoc business process management and present some of challenges.

The last several year has witnessed an explosion of interest in business collaboration. This paper looks at the latest form: collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment (CPFR). It looks at the possible benefits of business collaboration based on several pilot projects and pro-forma analysis and describes in some detail a case study, focusing on the mechanics of the CPFR process and its...

This paper presents a methodology for deriving business process descriptions based on terms in business contract. The aim is to assist process modellers in structuring collaborative interactions between parties, including their internal processes, to ensure contract-compliant behaviour. The methodology requires a formal model of contracts to facilitate process derivations and to form a basis fo...

Redress is an important customer support mechanism in B2C e-business to win customer confidence in online purchases. Although some form of redress has been considered in different parts of the world, it is still at an inception stage regarding its application to B2C e-business. This paper introduces redress and provides an explanation of themes related to redress in B2C e-business identified fr...

desired physical form of cities has been noticeable since the beginning of urbanization, from old patterns of early civilizations to the latest urbanism’s theories, which offered to build better cities. the opinions in recent decades have expressed that compact physical form of cities is a better form than sprawl form to achieve urban sustainability. the form of the city is the embodiment of it...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel Association with OECD data on R&D and capital formation. The resulting unbalanced panel cove...

This paper proposes a conceptual framework of e-business strategy. It argues that such a framework must be holistic, dynamic and dialectical. This framework will assist both researchers and practitioners regarding the key issues of e-business strategy. Further, a case study of Haier from China reveals that all firms need to learn how to design effective e-business strategies, which should be bu...