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Title

A semantically-enriched e-tendering mechanism

English Abstract

E-tendering is widely used in company and government purchasing in e-business practice. However, existing e-tendering platforms cannot solve semantic interoperability problems between heterogeneous e-tendering systems. It increases extra risks of misunderstanding the meaning of the exchanged e-tender document and failing to fairly evaluate which company is the best. This thesis proposes a novel semantically-enriched e-tendering (SEET) approach, which enables heterogeneous e-tendering systems to be semantically connected and interoperable by applying collaborative conceptualization theory. Based on this approach, a SEET platform is implemented and guarantees that e-tender inviters and e-tender bidders can exchange their e-tendering documents in a semantically consistent manner. This thesis targets to achieve the following objectives: 1. Identify the problem in the current practices for e-tendering platform 2. Design and develop a framework of SEET to solve the problem 3. Implement an SEET e-tendering platform prototype 4. Evaluate SEET and analyze by demonstrating the applicability of the approach using a real world scenario. 5. Conclude the thesis and describe the future work.

Issue date

2013.

Author

Chan, Ka Ieong

Faculty

Faculty of Science and Technology

Department

Department of Computer and Information Science

Degree

M.Sc.

Subject

Electronic commerce

Industrial procurement -- Data processing

Supervisor

Guo, Jing Zhi

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Location
1/F Zone C
Library URL
991005118499706306