Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation

A. F. Salam & Jason R. Stevens

Language: English

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: Jan 30, 2007

Description:

"To develop and sustain competitive advantage in the marketplace, organizations depend critically on competence and resources, knowledge and information exchanged both within and across partner organizations, and on process integration and management. Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation presents research related to the application of semantic Web technologies, including semantic service-oriented architecture, semantic content management, and semantic knowledge sharing in e-business processes. Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation compiles research from experts around the globe, bringing business, managerial, technological, and implementation issues surrounding the application of semantic Web technologies in e-business to the forefront."

About the Author

A. F. Salam is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management Department in the Bryan School of Business Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned both his MBA and PhD degrees from the School of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research interests include e-business and emerging technologies, semantic web technologies and business, ontology and knowledge representation, secure semantic distributed knowledge management, intelligent multi-agent software systems, business processes and service oriented architecture, trust and exchange relationship in e-commerce, ERP implementation and information technology management. His research has been published or forthcoming in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Communications of the AIS (CAIS), Information Systems Management, International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems, eService Journal, Electronic Government and Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications.