Generic UIs for Requesting Complex Products Within Distributed Market Spaces in the Internet of Everything
Distributed Market Spaces (DMS), refer to an exchange environment in emerging Internet of Everything, that supports users in making transactions of complex products; a novel type of products made up of different products and/or services that can be custom
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Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany [email protected] 2 Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany {mirjana.radonjic-simic,julian.reichwald}@dhbw-mannheim.de 3 Institute of Telematics, University of L¨ ubeck, L¨ ubeck, Germany [email protected]
Abstract. Distributed Market Spaces (DMS), refer to an exchange environment in emerging Internet of Everything, that supports users in making transactions of complex products; a novel type of products made up of different products and/or services that can be customized to better fit the individual context of the user. In order to express their demand for a particular complex product in a way that is interpretable by the DMS, users need flexible User Interfaces (UIs) that allow context-focused data collection related to the complexity of the user’s demand. This paper proposes a concept for generic UIs that enables users to compose their own UIs for requesting complex products, by combining existing UI descriptions for different parts of the particular complex product, as well as to share and improve UI descriptions among other users within the markets. Keywords: Automatic user interface generation · Semantic web · Internet of Everything · User Interface Ontologies · Commercial exchange · Distributed Market Spaces · Complex products
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Introduction
Emerging Internet of Everything (IoE) is opening up new opportunities for commercial exchange, giving the rise to novel types of products and services. Due to the increased interconnectivity of its participants (companies, institutions, individuals) on one hand and processes, data and things on the other [3], the IoE is enabling exchange environments, where products and services are customized and compound, as they are made up of many components provided by different suppliers [6]. Furthermore, these products and services can be orchestrated in complex products (i.e., an arbitrary combinations of individual products and/or c IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 Published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. All Rights Reserved F. Buccafurri et al. (Eds.): CD-ARES 2016, LNCS 9817, pp. 29–44, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45507-5 3
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services) and customized in a way to consider the unique conditions determined by the user’s context. As such, complex products can better fit the individual needs of the users, thus, create richer consumer experiences that have not been possible before. Contemporary solutions for commercial exchange are mostly focused on availability of individual products and services within their domain boundaries, or certain pre-defined combination of them traditionally bought together, however, are limited in their ability to support complex products, which need to fulfill particular user-defined criteria, going beyond the existing product/service descriptions. Consider the simple use case of booking a flight, hotel, rental car and guided tour. While already feasibl
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