The 109th RCKC Colloquium "Metadata ontology for web-based information management in e-marketplaces"
| Title | "Metadata ontology for web-based information management in e-marketplaces" |
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| Speaker | Dickson Chiu (Lecturer, The University of Hong Kong) |
| Date | Tuesday, February 4th, 2014. 13:00-14:00 |
| Location | Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area |
| Abstract | Recently, ontologies have been developed in various business domains with the recent maturing of the Semantic Web technologies. However, ontology-related researches have largely focused on the facilitation of successful matchmaking but not much on traders’ requirement elicitation and potential negotiations in e-marketplaces. Because ontology provides the key knowledge about the inter-relationships among the issues and alternatives of the traders’ requirements, we show how to elicit trade requirements, alternatives, and tradeoff from an agreed ontology. This facilitates the whole business process of the e-marketplace, from matchmaking, recommendation, to negotiation. We further propose a novel methodology for the elicitation of dependencies among traders’ requirements for the formulation of an effective decision plan. As a result, traders can have a better cognition of their requirements and the overall operations of the e-marketplace can be streamlined. In this talk, I shall also introduce our recent applications of this approach in some other web-based e-business applications like e-tourism and digital TV. |
| Participation | The seminar will be presented in English. No charge to participate and no reservation is needed. |
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Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in Information Management and Service Management with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, agents, information system research, and databases. The results have been widely published in over 150 international publications (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results. He received a best paper award in the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2004. He is the founding Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and serves in the editorial boards of several international journals. He co-founded several international workshops and co-edited several journal special issues. He also served as a program committee member for over 100 international conferences and workshops. Dr. Chiu is a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE, and a life member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.