The Case for the Web of Needs

Authors: 
Florian Kleedorfer
Christina Maria Busch
Christian Pichler
Christian Huemer
Type: 
Proceedings contribution
Proceedings: 
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2014), Volume 1
Publisher: 
IEEE Computer Society
Pages: 
94 - 101
ISBN: 
Year: 
2014
Abstract: 
E-marketplaces on the World Wide Web are information and transaction silos, which in the general case don't allow transactions across their boundaries. The consequence is that the Web, often termed the global marketplace, is fragmented along the dimensions of geography, content domain, supply or demand, user base, and many more. This fragmentation makes it inefficient to buy and sell commodities on the Web. We propose a framework that serves as a foundation for a distributed, de-centralized e-marketplace on top of the Web, making boundaries between existing systems disappear from the user's perspective. The framework standardizes the creation and description of objects that represent supply and demand. In addition to this, it allows for independent matching services to connect objects suitable for a transaction and it defines protocols for the message exchange between such objects.
TU Focus: 
Information and Communication Technology
Reference: 

F. Kleedorfer, C. Busch, C. Pichler, C. Huemer:
"The Case for the Web of Needs";
in: "Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2014), Volume 1", IEEE Computer Society, 2014, S. 94 - 101.

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21.01.2015 13:29:03
TU Id: 
237340
Accepted: 
Accepted
Invited: 
Department Focus: 
Business Informatics
Abstract German: 
E-marketplaces on the World Wide Web are information and transaction silos, which in the general case don't allow transactions across their boundaries. The consequence is that the Web, often termed the global marketplace, is fragmented along the dimensions of geography, content domain, supply or demand, user base, and many more. This fragmentation makes it inefficient to buy and sell commodities on the Web. We propose a framework that serves as a foundation for a distributed, de-centralized e-marketplace on top of the Web, making boundaries between existing systems disappear from the user's perspective. The framework standardizes the creation and description of objects that represent supply and demand. In addition to this, it allows for independent matching services to connect objects suitable for a transaction and it defines protocols for the message exchange between such objects.
Author List: 
F. Kleedorfer, C. Busch, C. Pichler, C. Huemer