Agile business networking is an emerging concept aimed at helping companies face the challenges of the dynamic economy of the 21st century. It integrates a technology and a business perspective, arriving at highly dynamic Internet-based processes. Despite ...

Content authors are increasingly using the Internet to network, providing each other with advice, collaboratively filtering important information, and creating virtual networks of trust. To adequately understand this social cyberspace, we must be able ...

Telework could potentially offer significant savings on fuel, office space, and carbon emissions, improve productivity and morale and even reduce the outflow of US jobs overseas. Many companies have enthusiastically embraced it, but pitfalls loom. It ...

Service-oriented architecture represents a promising approach to integrating data and software across different institutional and disciplinary sources, thus facilitating Web-scale collaboration while avoiding the need to convert different data and ...

Social networking sites (SNSs) are becoming mainstream and are spreading worldwide. Here, the authors review Facebook and Orkut, two major SNSs, and analyze a recent survey conducted among Indian and Pakistani Orkut users. They aim to investigate Orkut ...

As collaborative Web-based platforms evolve into service-oriented architectures, they promote composite and user-enriched services. In such platforms, the collaborations typically involve both humans and software services, thus creating highly dynamic ...

Today's organizations are no longer constrained by traditional time and place barriers. Instead, information technology supports virtual organizations: flexible networks of independent, globally distributed entities that share knowledge and resources ...

Because Web-scale processes are inherently cross-organizational, they require the robust enactment of interactions among autonomous parties. However, specifying the processes involved is difficult. To overcome this obstacle, the authors use a business ...

The Internet can help us identify when our efforts conflict with others and when they present opportunities for collaborations that could yield impressive gains. This column examines some science fiction scenarios that show how such functionality could ...

Two or more parties typically establish a business relationship using a contract, but a large gap still exists between the provisions of contracts produced by lawyers and the details of computer security and performance addressed by technologists. Some ...

Many will agree that email is badly broken when it comes to protecting users from spam, especially spoofing. With the growing prevalence of social networking sites, the increasing visibility into end users’ social connections will make it easy for ...

Three-dimendionsal social virtual worlds such as Second Life reveal challenges worth exploring for both researchers and managers.

Fundamental problems with today's social networking services block their potential to access the full range of available content and networked people online. A possible solution is to build semantic social networking into the fabric of the next-...

Web users have a unique set of interests at stake in the Net neutrality debate, but they also have unexploited bargaining chips in the form of the Web pages they run.

The Global Multimedia Collaboration System is designed to bridge H.323, Session Initiation Protocol, Access Grid clients, and 2.5G/3G cellular phones in audio-visual collaborations.One of its key components is the H.323 gateway, which lets H.323 ...

The first installment of the new Standards Track explores the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol. WebDAV supports remote collaborative authoring of Web sites and individual documents, remote access to documentmanagement systems, and more. ...

Applying a grid service module built on grid middleware to natural-resource management facilitates transparent use of high-performance ecosystem modeling packages without requiring users to handle underlying computational issues.(Across Trophic-Level ...