Electronic business and agents are among the most important and exciting areas of research and development in information and communication technology, with considerable potential impact and opportunities for the maritime sector. This paper proposes the design of a multi-agent system for internet virtual chartering markets (MAVCM). The MAVCM system applies for business-to-business transactions in maritime markets, and provides mechanisms for Internet-based chartering informational and transactional services. The lifecycle of the proposed system offers a solution for efficiently handling the processes involving a charterer who owns the cargo and employs a shipbroker to find a shipowner to deliver the cargo for a certain freight rate. The objective is to enable maritime market participants to electronically charter, trade and transport cargos based on information and transactions over Internet via their software agents. The roles of the identified MAVCM software agents as well as the processes of the involved agents in a chartering application scenario are described. Agent methodologies and technologies for the analysis and the design of an e-chartering system are presented. The GAIA methodology and A-UMI have been used in the design methodology employed and have been applied for the visual specification of the present pilot application scenario.
{"title":"A Multi-Agent System for e-Chartering","authors":"M. Sardis, M. Lambrou","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.61","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic business and agents are among the most important and exciting areas of research and development in information and communication technology, with considerable potential impact and opportunities for the maritime sector. This paper proposes the design of a multi-agent system for internet virtual chartering markets (MAVCM). The MAVCM system applies for business-to-business transactions in maritime markets, and provides mechanisms for Internet-based chartering informational and transactional services. The lifecycle of the proposed system offers a solution for efficiently handling the processes involving a charterer who owns the cargo and employs a shipbroker to find a shipowner to deliver the cargo for a certain freight rate. The objective is to enable maritime market participants to electronically charter, trade and transport cargos based on information and transactions over Internet via their software agents. The roles of the identified MAVCM software agents as well as the processes of the involved agents in a chartering application scenario are described. Agent methodologies and technologies for the analysis and the design of an e-chartering system are presented. The GAIA methodology and A-UMI have been used in the design methodology employed and have been applied for the visual specification of the present pilot application scenario.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132438434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide prompt and cost-effective service discoveries and responses to dynamic changing market conditions. In one of the three dimensions of SOA, reach and range, the search engine has played a very significant role toward the success of this business objective. Over the last few years, search engine marketing has become one of the fastest growing industries. Currently, search engine marketing is divided into two categories: paid and non-paid. Paid marketing includes Pay-per-Click (PPC), Contextual Targeted Text Ads, and Paid Inclusion. Non-paid marketing includes Organic Search Engine Optimization and Link Popularity. As this is still a relatively new market, most companies lack the knowledge or the tools to manage their marketing strategies and maximize the return of their investments (ROI). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of this important dimension of SOA, reach and range, and to design a web-based Search Engine Marketing Management System (SEMMS), which can be effectively applied to technical aspects in managing paid and non-paid search engine marketing required in this SOA dimension. The functionalities of the system include managing keywords and links to a website as well as producing analytical reports to track the performance of the marketing campaign.
{"title":"The Design and Implementation of A Search Engine Marketing Management System (SEMMS) Based on Service-Oriented Architecture Platform","authors":"Weider D. Yu, A. Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.117","url":null,"abstract":"Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide prompt and cost-effective service discoveries and responses to dynamic changing market conditions. In one of the three dimensions of SOA, reach and range, the search engine has played a very significant role toward the success of this business objective. Over the last few years, search engine marketing has become one of the fastest growing industries. Currently, search engine marketing is divided into two categories: paid and non-paid. Paid marketing includes Pay-per-Click (PPC), Contextual Targeted Text Ads, and Paid Inclusion. Non-paid marketing includes Organic Search Engine Optimization and Link Popularity. As this is still a relatively new market, most companies lack the knowledge or the tools to manage their marketing strategies and maximize the return of their investments (ROI). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of this important dimension of SOA, reach and range, and to design a web-based Search Engine Marketing Management System (SEMMS), which can be effectively applied to technical aspects in managing paid and non-paid search engine marketing required in this SOA dimension. The functionalities of the system include managing keywords and links to a website as well as producing analytical reports to track the performance of the marketing campaign.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"18 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132982994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In service-oriented architecture (SOA), actual quality of service (QoS) is not known until the service is executed since the internals of the service are hidden to service consumers. Hence, quality management of services before publishing is important in SOA environment. To ensure that a qualified service is published, defining metrics for evaluating the QoS is a prerequisite. Therefore, this paper proposes a set of QoS metrics for service providers especially considering the consumer's concern. We first identify unique features of SOA and define quality attributes and metrics. To show the applicability and usefulness of the QoS metrics, we perform a case study for hotel reservation service.
{"title":"QoS Metrics for Evaluating Services from the Perspective of Service Providers","authors":"S. Choi, J. Her, Soo Dong Kim","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.107","url":null,"abstract":"In service-oriented architecture (SOA), actual quality of service (QoS) is not known until the service is executed since the internals of the service are hidden to service consumers. Hence, quality management of services before publishing is important in SOA environment. To ensure that a qualified service is published, defining metrics for evaluating the QoS is a prerequisite. Therefore, this paper proposes a set of QoS metrics for service providers especially considering the consumer's concern. We first identify unique features of SOA and define quality attributes and metrics. To show the applicability and usefulness of the QoS metrics, we perform a case study for hotel reservation service.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132585288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Market players that can respond to critical market events faster than their competitors, will end up as winners in the emerging new economy. In order to win the next phase in the never-ending market race, they will also need to integrate their business processes with those of their suppliers and business partners. Additionally, the ability to quickly adjust processes to better respond to one's customers will also become a decisive factor in the new economy. In this paper, we discuss the deficiencies of formal existing process management approaches and propose an agile process management approach based on Sense and Respond loop.
{"title":"Agile Business Process Management with Sense and Respond","authors":"Alexander Schatten, Josef Schiefer","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.43","url":null,"abstract":"Market players that can respond to critical market events faster than their competitors, will end up as winners in the emerging new economy. In order to win the next phase in the never-ending market race, they will also need to integrate their business processes with those of their suppliers and business partners. Additionally, the ability to quickly adjust processes to better respond to one's customers will also become a decisive factor in the new economy. In this paper, we discuss the deficiencies of formal existing process management approaches and propose an agile process management approach based on Sense and Respond loop.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":" February","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131976827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As more enterprises turn to SOA for the flexible deployment of business processes, adaptable and highly configurable infrastructures can be used to ensure that end-to-end quality of service requirements are met via automatic and dynamic process monitoring, diagnosis, and routing. We present the intelligent accountability middleware architecture (LLAMA) to support extensible SOA-based service process composition, run-time management, and configuration. It includes the infrastructure to continuously monitor services within an active service workflow, and dynamically adapt by performing run-time process reconfigurations. An open source enterprise service bus (ESB) project, Mule, has been adopted to incorporate its routing and interception mechanisms to create the LLAMA ESB to achieve dynamic configurability and dynamic routing that can be controlled and adjusted at run-time through agents and other LLAMA components and brokers. We measure the performance of the LLAMA ESB, specifically, the overhead of interceptors, and the profiling and dynamic routing infrastructure. We find that there is no significant overhead imposed by the LLAMA ESB.
{"title":"The Design of an Intelligent Accountability Architecture","authors":"Kwei-Jay Lin, M. Panahi, Yue Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.101","url":null,"abstract":"As more enterprises turn to SOA for the flexible deployment of business processes, adaptable and highly configurable infrastructures can be used to ensure that end-to-end quality of service requirements are met via automatic and dynamic process monitoring, diagnosis, and routing. We present the intelligent accountability middleware architecture (LLAMA) to support extensible SOA-based service process composition, run-time management, and configuration. It includes the infrastructure to continuously monitor services within an active service workflow, and dynamically adapt by performing run-time process reconfigurations. An open source enterprise service bus (ESB) project, Mule, has been adopted to incorporate its routing and interception mechanisms to create the LLAMA ESB to achieve dynamic configurability and dynamic routing that can be controlled and adjusted at run-time through agents and other LLAMA components and brokers. We measure the performance of the LLAMA ESB, specifically, the overhead of interceptors, and the profiling and dynamic routing infrastructure. We find that there is no significant overhead imposed by the LLAMA ESB.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133933018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper studies fuzzy coalition formation for self-interested agents in cooperative superadditive games. In particular, we consider the situation, where, given a number of tasks, service provider agents seek partners from those available in the environment. These potential partners can commit their resources to multiple coalitions and, in so doing, aim to maximise the sum of the expected Shapley value in the coalitions in which they participate. Specifically, we develop a novel auction-based fuzzy coalition formation algorithm that enables each agent to choose its most preferred coalitions and then to find the coalitions it will actually participate in through simultaneous multiple entry English auctions. When the auction closes, the active bids in each auction represent the set of agents that will perform the task jointly. We then show, by empirical evaluation, that our algorithm outperforms two benchmarks (that allow only crisp coalitions and a greedy approach to fuzzy coalitions) by up to 61.3% with respect to the total value of the coalition structure.
{"title":"Forming Fuzzy Coalitions in Cooperative Superadditive Games","authors":"M. He, Xudong Luo, N. Jennings, M. Wooldridge","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.58","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies fuzzy coalition formation for self-interested agents in cooperative superadditive games. In particular, we consider the situation, where, given a number of tasks, service provider agents seek partners from those available in the environment. These potential partners can commit their resources to multiple coalitions and, in so doing, aim to maximise the sum of the expected Shapley value in the coalitions in which they participate. Specifically, we develop a novel auction-based fuzzy coalition formation algorithm that enables each agent to choose its most preferred coalitions and then to find the coalitions it will actually participate in through simultaneous multiple entry English auctions. When the auction closes, the active bids in each auction represent the set of agents that will perform the task jointly. We then show, by empirical evaluation, that our algorithm outperforms two benchmarks (that allow only crisp coalitions and a greedy approach to fuzzy coalitions) by up to 61.3% with respect to the total value of the coalition structure.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122127756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nowadays, composing previous available Web services into incremental Web services with more powerful functions has become a new hotspot. To select Web services during the process of composing them is a chief task, so it becomes crucial to select services providing the same or similar functionality by their non-functional attributes namely Quality of Service (QoS). In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes to combine the same or similar functional services into classes of service. It designs the QoS- globally optimal model, which is respectively solved by using "simulated annealing" and "genetic " algorithms, the two algorithms , compared by experiment.
{"title":"QoS-Based Web Services Selection","authors":"Hongbing Wang, Ping Tong, Phil Thompson","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.109","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, composing previous available Web services into incremental Web services with more powerful functions has become a new hotspot. To select Web services during the process of composing them is a chief task, so it becomes crucial to select services providing the same or similar functionality by their non-functional attributes namely Quality of Service (QoS). In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes to combine the same or similar functional services into classes of service. It designs the QoS- globally optimal model, which is respectively solved by using \"simulated annealing\" and \"genetic \" algorithms, the two algorithms , compared by experiment.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123556089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transparent and seamless integration is essential for service-oriented system engineering. This paper targets the integration of data access systems and Java. The access system can service simple data queries or complex transactions. Examples of access systems include accesses to XML databases and language objects. The integration is two-fold: space integration and time integration. Transparent space integration allows new access functions to be added to a Java class when a new access system becomes available, even without the source code of that Java class. Ultimate integration enables an object in the data access system to be accessed as a plain old Java object (pojo). As the industry put more and more computing cores into a single socket, computers are becoming even more powerful. Oftentimes the concurrency control is the bottleneck which prevents data-sharing application software from fully utilizing the available computing power. We provide time integration by adding the concept of concurrency control on the access systems into Java and coordinate the control across Java runtime environment and the access systems. For instance, we integrate the transaction processing in the database and the concurrency control in the Java runtime environment. Thus, our integrated system, called DJ, provides both efficient concurrency control and intuitive programming model via time and space integration, respectively. This paper present the overall DJ system and then focus on the algorithms of two key components, extension methods and concurrency offloading.
{"title":"DJ: A Transparent Java-Integrated Data Access System","authors":"Shih-Wei Liao, Keqiang Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.108","url":null,"abstract":"Transparent and seamless integration is essential for service-oriented system engineering. This paper targets the integration of data access systems and Java. The access system can service simple data queries or complex transactions. Examples of access systems include accesses to XML databases and language objects. The integration is two-fold: space integration and time integration. Transparent space integration allows new access functions to be added to a Java class when a new access system becomes available, even without the source code of that Java class. Ultimate integration enables an object in the data access system to be accessed as a plain old Java object (pojo). As the industry put more and more computing cores into a single socket, computers are becoming even more powerful. Oftentimes the concurrency control is the bottleneck which prevents data-sharing application software from fully utilizing the available computing power. We provide time integration by adding the concept of concurrency control on the access systems into Java and coordinate the control across Java runtime environment and the access systems. For instance, we integrate the transaction processing in the database and the concurrency control in the Java runtime environment. Thus, our integrated system, called DJ, provides both efficient concurrency control and intuitive programming model via time and space integration, respectively. This paper present the overall DJ system and then focus on the algorithms of two key components, extension methods and concurrency offloading.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128051306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While the practice of service oriented architecture (SOA) and model-driven development (MDD) has brought efficiency gains to software development, building responsive, scalable business applications enabled by distributed sensor and actuator (S&A) infrastructure remains challenging, often involving extensive effort and skill. The results are typically one-of-a-kind, difficult to replicate or modify for different environments, and brittle in the face of changes to the physical plant and equipment. This paper examines the challenges presented by distributed S&A infrastructure in the context of business information systems, and introduces an architecture that applies SOA/MDD methodologies to the modeling, development, deployment, and management of S&A systems. In particular, the architecture focuses on the separation of concerns between logical application development and infrastructure capability management, and the support of component assembly with an event-based programming model. The paper then briefly describes a prototype implementation of the architecture, including integrated tooling and runtime support, and illustrates its role relative to existing business process modeling, integration and execution environments with examples based on industry applications.
{"title":"Extending SOA/MDD to Sensors and Actuators for Sense-and-Respond Business Processes","authors":"Han Chen, Paul B. Chou, N. Cohen, Sastry S. Duri","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.79","url":null,"abstract":"While the practice of service oriented architecture (SOA) and model-driven development (MDD) has brought efficiency gains to software development, building responsive, scalable business applications enabled by distributed sensor and actuator (S&A) infrastructure remains challenging, often involving extensive effort and skill. The results are typically one-of-a-kind, difficult to replicate or modify for different environments, and brittle in the face of changes to the physical plant and equipment. This paper examines the challenges presented by distributed S&A infrastructure in the context of business information systems, and introduces an architecture that applies SOA/MDD methodologies to the modeling, development, deployment, and management of S&A systems. In particular, the architecture focuses on the separation of concerns between logical application development and infrastructure capability management, and the support of component assembly with an event-based programming model. The paper then briefly describes a prototype implementation of the architecture, including integrated tooling and runtime support, and illustrates its role relative to existing business process modeling, integration and execution environments with examples based on industry applications.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129435007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raymond Y. K. Lau, K.-S. Wong, K.-F. Fung, S.-Y. Ho
With the fast-growing financial markets in Hong Kong and mainland China, corporate or individual investors have to make many important financial investment decisions on a daily basis. To make proper investment decisions, investors usually need to collect and analyze a huge amount of financial data beforehand. Nevertheless, human cognitive power is too limited to extract relevant information from the huge amount of raw data and to develop correct decisions in real-time. This paper illustrates the design and implementation of an open Web services based on-demand financial investment system which specializes in option trading. Corporate or individual Investors can subscribe to the aforementioned financial investment services so as to receive prompt advice for specific types of investment options. The proposed financial investment Web services can autonomously collect large amount of real-time data from various on-line sources and develop accurate predictions according to rigorous investment appraisal models. Based on a user profile, the system can provide personalized recommendation with reference to the specific risk-return trade-off of a subscriber. According to our empirical testing, the proposed option rating service can provide more accurate real-time predictions about the prices of options when compared with the online option calculator provided by a well-known financial investment company.
{"title":"Toward An On-Demand Option Rating Service for e-Business","authors":"Raymond Y. K. Lau, K.-S. Wong, K.-F. Fung, S.-Y. Ho","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2007.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2007.39","url":null,"abstract":"With the fast-growing financial markets in Hong Kong and mainland China, corporate or individual investors have to make many important financial investment decisions on a daily basis. To make proper investment decisions, investors usually need to collect and analyze a huge amount of financial data beforehand. Nevertheless, human cognitive power is too limited to extract relevant information from the huge amount of raw data and to develop correct decisions in real-time. This paper illustrates the design and implementation of an open Web services based on-demand financial investment system which specializes in option trading. Corporate or individual Investors can subscribe to the aforementioned financial investment services so as to receive prompt advice for specific types of investment options. The proposed financial investment Web services can autonomously collect large amount of real-time data from various on-line sources and develop accurate predictions according to rigorous investment appraisal models. Based on a user profile, the system can provide personalized recommendation with reference to the specific risk-return trade-off of a subscriber. According to our empirical testing, the proposed option rating service can provide more accurate real-time predictions about the prices of options when compared with the online option calculator provided by a well-known financial investment company.","PeriodicalId":184487,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129871306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}