E-services in e-business engineering

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Highlights:

• This paper highlights the role of e-business engineering in e-commerce and e-business and its scope in computer and management science.

• The paper illustrates the interdependency between ICT and e-business market by their intricate interactions.

• New business model takes advantage of innovative technologies to create new market opportunity and new technologies are developed to meet the requirements of new business model.

• Some of hottest commodities in e-commerce in the current market are cloud service and Internet of services.

• This leads to the fast growing e-service marketplaces, but they cannot be managed and governed properly due to lack of methods to automate generation of service descriptions.

• The paper points out the research directions such as developing appropriate standardized service description and registry and proposing new AI based methods to achieve automated generation of service description for service discovery, selection and composition.

摘要

•This paper highlights the role of e-business engineering in e-commerce and e-business and its scope in computer and management science.•The paper illustrates the interdependency between ICT and e-business market by their intricate interactions.•New business model takes advantage of innovative technologies to create new market opportunity and new technologies are developed to meet the requirements of new business model.•Some of hottest commodities in e-commerce in the current market are cloud service and Internet of services.•This leads to the fast growing e-service marketplaces, but they cannot be managed and governed properly due to lack of methods to automate generation of service descriptions.•The paper points out the research directions such as developing appropriate standardized service description and registry and proposing new AI based methods to achieve automated generation of service description for service discovery, selection and composition.

论文关键词:E-business engineering,Electronic commerce,Methods advances,Research directions,Service-oriented computing

论文评审过程:Received 15 October 2015, Revised 22 October 2015, Accepted 22 October 2015, Available online 3 November 2015, Version of Record 5 May 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2015.10.004