In most P2P business models, in which users purchase the media, it is necessary to securely identify the user in order to facilitate payment. In this paper, we present a technique ...
Abstract Loosely coupled services are gaining importance in many business domains. However, compared to OO-RPC middleware approaches, emerging technologies proposed to implement lo...
Abstract— Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, ...
Many large companies around the world have made considerable investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to support their business processes. Many of these companies ...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...