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Internet Electronic Product Catalogues: An Approach Beyond Unstructured Keywords and Multimedia

2000-06-01 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

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The Concept of Mediating Electronic Product Catalogues

1997-07-01 , Schmid, Beat , Handschuh, Siegfried , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina

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Cross-Supplier Bundling of Tourist Products with Multi-Vendor Catalogs

2000-07-03 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat , Hansen, Hans Robert

Tourist services are one of the most popular products offered online. This has given rise to all service suppliers to offer their products over the Internet. Currently elementary services as hotels, flights or rental cars and travel packages can be booked online. Despite the high interdependence of tourist products there is no possibility for easy and user friendly online bundling of tourist products. In this paper a solution for online bundling of products will be presented based on multi-vendor Electronic Product Catalogs developed with the Q-Technology.

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Elektronische Märkte

2003 , Schmid, Beat , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Lechner, K. , Seufert, Sabine , Dubs, Rolf , Euler, Dieter , Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes

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Internet Electronic Product Catalogues: An Approach Beyond Unstructured Keywords and Multimedia

2000-05-01 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

Internet-based Electronic Product Catalogs (IEPCs) are one of the most important parts of electronic markets. They are the merchant's interactive interface towards online customers. Based on the features of their carrier, the interactive and ubiquitous Internet, IEPCs are online, permanently up-to date, and enable customization as well as direct communication between seller and buyer. Even though IEPCs are more sophisticated compared to paper-based catalogs, the search for products on the Internet is still a cumbersome process. Surveys show, that online customers have difficulties navigating through merchants' sites to find the products they need. In this paper, a comprehensive approach for IEPCs as complex information spaces will be presented. First a detailed requirements analysis for IEPCs will be conducted. Then a concept for organizing information within IEPCs, which goes beyond simple keywords and multimedia, will be presented. Finally, technologies for its implementation will be identified.

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A Typology of Online Communities and Community Supporting Platforms

2001-01-03 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

There is a broad agreement that the establishment of communities among users of online platforms can contribute significantly to the success of the platform. This provoked the demand for guidelines on how to build an online community. Currently, guidelines available in the literature emphasize social and economic aspects of community building and neglect technical aspects. The main hypothesis of the paper is that online communities have two constitutional elements: the community members and the platform. The platform enables online communities by providing a metaphor of a common meeting place and shapes communication with the provided services. Technical aspects therefore have significant effects on community building and an important question is: "What kind of services should a platform have in order to enable, stimulate and foster community building?". The paper tries to provide an answer by identifying community modules and by proposing a typology of online communities and respective community supporting platforms.

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Konzepte zur Bildung von virtuellen Gemeinschaften innerhalb des virtuellen Software Hauses InforamtionObjects

1998-10-01 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat , Engelien, M. , Bender, K.

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Requirements Analysis for Community Supporting Platforms Based on the Media Reference Model

2000-10-01 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

One new paradigm of the information age is the phenomenon of online communities. Online communities are associations of agents, which are connected by an electronic medium, share a common language, world and values as well as pursue common interests. The elements that constitute virtual communities are the association of agents and the enabling electronic medium. Between the two elements there is a close interrelationship - the medium shapes with its functionality the communication patterns of the community. Despite this interrelationship, little attention has been paid to the development of appropriate media for communities. This paper tries to contribute to fill this gap by providing a checklist for requirements for analysis for community supporting platforms based on the media reference model.

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Community Supporting Platforms

2000-01-04 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

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Information Objects - The First Virtual Software House in Switzerland

1998-09-28 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat , Heartsch, Patrick