In Open Innovation, companies open up their innovation activities to external stakeholders. Using web-based ideation platforms (WBIP), companies crowdsource ideas for innovations from their customers. Ideation can be considered as a create process. Therefore, in this research we analyze how current web-based ideation platforms run by firms support Shneiderman’s GENEX framework that aims at supp...

Web services have a potential to enhance B2B ecommerce over the Internet by allowing companies and organizations to publish their business processes on service directories where potential trading partners can find them. This can give rise to new business paradigms based on ad-hoc trading relations as companies, particularly small to medium scale, can cheaply and flexibly enter into fruitful con...

In Open Innovation, companies open up their innovation activities to external stakeholders. Using web-based ideation platforms (WBIP), companies crowdsource ideas for innovations from their customers. Ideation can be considered as a create process. Therefore, in this research we analyze how current web-based ideation platforms run by firms support Shneiderman’s GENEX framework that aims at supp...

The rapid progress of internet business makes organizations and companies to accumulate vast amounts of web data. It is a tremendous challenge to extract valuable information from vast amounts of these data. Generally, traditional data analysis tools and techniques are unable to process of such a large amount of web data effectively and accurately. In addition, given the complexity of web data ...

What makes small IT companies’ web development practices for e-commerce successful is essential for small IT companies. Usually they do not have the resources to initiate research on such issues alone. The authors report on their work in progress towards the design of a system for promoting improved understanding of the Critical Success Factors for web development that supports the accumulation...

The widespread diffusion of the World Wide Web among medium/small companies yields a huge amount of information to make business available online. Nevertheless the heterogeneity of that information, forces even trading partners involved in the same business process to face daily interoperability issues. The challenge is the integration of distributed business processes, which, in turn, means in...

Optimised maintenance can reduce operating costs by demanding less resources and avoiding equipment breakdown, hence ensuring that daily manufacturing and production will not be interrupted. Web-based maintenance is one of the most efficient methods for optimising maintenance. The Web-based maintenance system that we have developed uses virtual instruments, to provide remote sensing, monitoring...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) innovating applications have posed novel, technical, organizational and commercial challenges. This study uses a hypercube model to investigate these innovative changes and focuses on their impacts on E-commerce stakeholders: providers, E-commerce companies, customers, and complementors. The results indicate that mobile commerce (M-commerce) differs substantiall...

consulting companies are encountered with many problems when they are supposed to generate a new document, e.g. a new request for proposal (rfp). they already have the building blocks of these new requests but they are buried as implicit knowledge in the unorganized documents of the company. in this paper it is shown how one can use semantic technology in knowledge and content management in ord...

background: the purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast eating was related with overweight/obesity in korean adolescents. method: we analyzed the data collected in the 5 th kyrbws, in which 72,399 adolescents participated in 2009. we assessed the association between frequency of breakfast eating and body mass index by using multivariate logistic regression analys...