Food Service Management Web Platform Based on XML Specification and Web Services
Company’s importance and competitiveness is no longer just to enable automatic processes but also to fulfill needs of humans as we nowadays also live concerned with enjoyment and pleasure, in order to complement people's lives. Built from the decision to
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Food Service Management Web Platform Based on XML Specification and Web Services Pedro Sabioni, Vinı´cius Carneiro, and Maria Leonilde R. Varela
Abstract Company’s importance and competitiveness is no longer just to enable automatic processes but also to fulfill needs of humans as we nowadays also live concerned with enjoyment and pleasure, in order to complement people’s lives. Built from the decision to bring to market a fully customized product to the customer comes the Fragus Company. This company enables services of Personal Chef and Bartender aiming to bring convenience in one of life’s greatest pleasures: eating. This publication aims at briefly describing a web platform of this company and its usefulness, which is to some extend provided by the use of structured data based on XML and related technologies, for better supporting the Company’s services and to enable an easy way for information storing and processing over the web, namely through web services. Keywords Mass customization • Minimum standardization • Food service management • Web platform • Xml specification and web services
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The minimum standardization is present in several areas of study now widely investigated, varying from projects and systems developments or process mapping up to simulation tasks, this standard consists on a way for achieving expected goals, regarding minimum standardization [1–3]. The base line segment of this issue follows the same reasoning of a macro-activity, aiming at, among other things, to properly be able to progressively subdivide a concept down to a minimum level of significance. This, in turn, mostly includes more than one pattern. Therefore, this
P. Sabioni • V. Carneiro • M.L.R. Varela (*) Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Azure´m Campus, 4800-058 Guimara˜es, Portugal e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] A. Madureira et al. (eds.), Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and 277 Applications, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 61, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_26, # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
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patterns are something like an indivisible task, resource, or an attribute that is defined for a given application context, which in this work is related to food services provided to end-users, in a daily basis. The purpose of this work arose from a very simple idea, in order to enable a better service providing to each internet user that seeks for some high level of service customization. In order to make a contribution in this direction, this paper intends to use and express this concept within an adjustment for DTD (Document Type Definition) that was applied to this food service company, for developing a management system, in order to enable the company’s main activity to be enriched and progressively more personalized, through the creation and configuration and processing of customized menus to perform the service of
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