An Approach to Deploying SOA in Technological Information Integration

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuofeng Zhao ◽  
Haifang Fu ◽  
Jun Fang
Keyword(s):  
Information Integration ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Specific Service ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Information Category ◽  
Different Sources

The growing need for the integrated usage of information from different sources has led to the requirement for information integration. This paper proposes a business-oriented SOA deployment approach, which is derived from a real world project, for the agencies of technology to provide value-added services through integrating the existing information resources. In the approach, information services, which are supposed to be identified in accordance with information category standard, are created and used in a resource-centric way, and the concept of business service is brought out for domain users to ease the usage of information services by modeling business context and IT information coherently. Based on business services, a domain-specific service mash-up language is provided to “program” information integration applications, and the corresponding run-time support is built to parse the applications and execute business services in mediation-style architecture. The system implementation and the application of our approach are also given.

An Approach to Deploying SOA in Technological Information Integration

2012 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Zhuofeng Zhao ◽  
Haifang Fu ◽  
Jun Fang
Keyword(s):  
Information Integration ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Technological Information ◽  
Information Category ◽  
Different Sources

The growing need for the integrated usage of information from different sources has led to the requirement for information integration. This paper proposes a business-oriented SOA deployment approach, which is derived from a real world project, for the agencies of technology to provide value-added services through integrating the existing information resources. In the approach, information services, which are supposed to be identified in accordance with information category standard, are created and used in a resource-centric way, and the concept of business service is brought out for domain users to ease the usage of information services by modeling business context and IT information coherently. Based on business services, a domain-specific service mash-up language is provided to “program” information integration applications, and the corresponding run-time support is built to parse the applications and execute business services in mediation-style architecture. The system implementation and the application of our approach are also given.

The Performance of Business-Service Firms in Peripheral Regions: An International Comparison between Scotland and Nova Scotia

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1627-1648 ◽  
Author(s):  
P N O'Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Management Consultancy ◽  
Consistent Picture ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Peripheral Regions

In this paper a comparative analysis of the competitiveness and performance of business-service companies in two peripheral regions, Nova Scotia and Scotland, is presented. Several dimensions of performance are investigated for four industries: market research, management consultancy, advertising, and graphic design. Value added per person is one third higher in Scotland compared with Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotian offices derive a much higher proportion of their turnover from government and public-sector contracts. In general, however, a very consistent picture emerges of the relative position of business services in the two regions. Possible demand-side and supply-side causes of such differences are reviewed and potential policy responses considered.

Knowledge Enhanced LSTM for Coreference Resolution on Biomedical Texts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufei Li ◽  
Xiaoyong Ma ◽  
Xiangyu Zhou ◽  
Pengzhen Cheng ◽  
Kai He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Integration ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Coreference Resolution ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Memory Network ◽  
Biomedical Texts

Abstract Motivation Bio-entity Coreference Resolution focuses on identifying the coreferential links in biomedical texts, which is crucial to complete bio-events’ attributes and interconnect events into bio-networks. Previously, as one of the most powerful tools, deep neural network-based general domain systems are applied to the biomedical domain with domain-specific information integration. However, such methods may raise much noise due to its insufficiency of combining context and complex domain-specific information. Results In this paper, we explore how to leverage the external knowledge base in a fine-grained way to better resolve coreference by introducing a knowledge-enhanced Long Short Term Memory network (LSTM), which is more flexible to encode the knowledge information inside the LSTM. Moreover, we further propose a knowledge attention module to extract informative knowledge effectively based on contexts. The experimental results on the BioNLP and CRAFT datasets achieve state-of-the-art performance, with a gain of 7.5 F1 on BioNLP and 10.6 F1 on CRAFT. Additional experiments also demonstrate superior performance on the cross-sentence coreferences. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

A little help from my friends: how purchasing gains influence in complex business-to-business services: the case of legal

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy L. Tate ◽  
Lisa M. Ellram ◽  
Ulrich Schmelzle
Keyword(s):  
Supplier Management ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Additional Costs ◽  
Service Procurement ◽  
Business To Business

Purpose The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of how purchasing can become meaningfully involved in complex business-to-business service purchases. Design/methodology/approach A single in-depth case study method of an exemplar organization was applied to better understand the purchasing function’s role in adding to the value proposition in complex, non-traditional business-to-business service purchases. Findings Powerful allies or advocates can mediate purchasing involvement in service procurement. However, once the involvement is initiated, purchasing must make a positive contribution with respect to the specific needs and expectations of the budget owner to retain its influence. Research limitations/implications This research extends institutional theory to show how powerful allies or advocates can mediate purchasing involvement in the complex services spend. Practical implications This study describes the potential impact of purchasing’s involvement in complex services spend and highlights the opportunities for purchasing managers to improve supplier management and drive out additional costs. Originality/value For the business practitioner, this research provides evidence regarding how individual functions can gain influence in the organization. A conceptual model describes the meaningful involvement of purchasing in complex business-to-business service purchases.

scholarly journals Using IoT in Supply Chain Risk Management, to Enable Collaboration between Business, Community, and Government

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 995-1003
Author(s):  
Li Meng
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Difficult Times

The internet of things (IoT) and social media provide information related to disasters that could help businesses to strategically mitigate risks and optimize their supply chain during difficult times. This paper proposes a framework to show how business or supply chain enterprisers can collaborate with community and government in disaster supply chain risk management. Businesses must have an established risk mitigation plan, update it periodically and implement promptly. Community collaboration can build a resilient society, and government should play an important role in leading both financial and non-financial support during natural disasters and pandemic management. The IoT and social media are new mechanisms as a vocal point to enable government, ensuring trustworthiness of information, to provide the community with a means to express needs and feedback, and to assist business services to meet the changeable preferences under risk threats. Social media can be a collaborative effort between all the parties and helps make value added decisions efficiently in supply chain risk management.

scholarly journals Profissionais da sociedade de informação: o information broker

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (194) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Marchiori
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Job Information ◽  
Information Products ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Information Brokers ◽  
Information Broker

Descreve as atividades do intermediário da informação information broker), como um profissional da sociedade da informação. Apresenta sua origem histórica, formação acadêmica e funções que esse deve desempenhar no contexto do oferecimento de serviços e produtos de informação de valor agregado. Destaca a necessidade de critérios para a seleção adequada desse profissional e a complexidade envolvida no planejamento e estruturação de serviços de consultoria desta natureza. O desenvolvimento e popularização das redes de informação e o potencial acesso de dados por um número cada vez mais amplo de indivíduos, apresenta um desafio ao information broker, do qual se exigirá um alto grau de criatividade e de resposta qualitativa às demandas de informação de indivíduos e grupos. Palavras-chave: serviços e produtos de informação; intermediação de informação; profissionais de informação. Abstract It describes the information broker's activities as a professional in the information society. It presents an historical approach as well as it's academic formation and functions concerning information products and services which have value-added. In order to choose correctly this sort of professional, employers must decide under specific criteria, foreseeing the complexity involved on this kind of consultant job. Information brokers must be aware about the changes in the process of seeking information, that already put them under pressure, in order to offer new, qualitative and creative information products and services, oriented to save time and money from their clients. Key-words: information services and products; information brokerage; information professionals.

scholarly journals A Long Run ARDL Investigation of Manufacturing Adjustment to the Services Economy in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Olumuyiwa Olamade
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run

The long-run equilibrating relationship between the value-added growth of services and manufacturing is investigated in this research. The study is based on the well-established empirical link between manufacturing and service activities, and in particular, manufacturing's servicification. The selected variables' annualized time series were obtained from the World Development Indicators. The paper used the autoregressive distributed lag framework to regress manufacturing value-added growth against service value-added growth while accounting for economic growth, factor input growth, and trade effects. The findings revealed that in Nigeria, a strong performing services sector has a large negative impact on manufacturing performance, whereas capital accumulation and income growth have positive effects. The supply constraint of business services that the manufacturing sector requires is at the root of this finding. The paper advocates for policy frameworks that support the efficient supply of business services as both a manufacturing input and a productivity enhancer for the entire economy.

Maturity level of internal communication environment management and company’s efficiency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina I. Bazileva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
Method Of Evaluation

The introduced method of evaluation of the corporate internal communication environment is based upon the author’s maturity model. Within the study, the key intangible factors (motivators) were identified as a maturity model component. The survey of top executives in the business services sector was carried out to analyze maturity model influence on business performance. The author argues that empowerment (expansion of employees’ rights and possibilities) influences performance significantly. Practical recommendations are given on how to increase maturity level in managing corporate internal communication environment to achieve better results. Building efficient corporate internal communication environment is the vital task for innovative companies with dominant and increasing intellectual property in value added. The best practices of Russian hi-tech companies demonstrates that implemented business competence model, single communication and learning space and social interaction instruments make the most efficient mechanisms for building internal communication environment to facilitate innovations.

The Semantic Web in Tourism

2011 ◽  
pp. 675-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Miranda Lima ◽  
José Moreira
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Selection Of

The emergence of the World Wide Web made available massive amounts of data. This data, created and disseminated from many different sources, is prepared and linked in a way that is well-suited for display purposes, but automation, integration, interoperability or context-oriented search can hardly be implemented. Hence, the Semantic Web aims at promoting global information integration and semantic interoperability, through the use of metadata, ontologies and inference mechanisms. This chapter presents a Semantic Model for Tourism (SeMoT), designed for building Semantic Web enabled applications for the planning and management of touristic itineraries, taking into account the new requirements of more demanding and culturally evolved tourists. It includes an introduction to relevant tourism concepts, an overview of current trends in Web Semantics research and a presentation of the architecture, main features and a selection of representative ontologies that compose the SeMoT.

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