Foreword of Special Issue on "E-Service and Applications"

Jason C. Hung, Hsing-I Wang
2011 Journal of Computers  
This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to engage in an in-depth discussion on various research and deployment issues regarding ecommerce and e-government. Finally, it creates the new value to information industries. Research in these fields is emergent and crucial, not only in academic and research community, but also in industrial field. In this decade, technological application researches are very popular. This special issue focuses on the state-of-the-art
more » ... ware technology related to these issues, including Resource management for cloud systems, Services integration and management in cloud systems, Optimal deployment configuration, Web services, Vision on novel advances of automated intelligent business agents and e-Commerce, Modeling and simulation of business processes, e-Supply Chains, e-Logistics, e-Procurement for both businesses and government , e-Participation, e-Governance, and e-Voting. Ten papers are included in this special issue. In the first paper entitled "Measure the Performance of Reducing Digital Divide -the BSC and AHP Approach", Dr. Hsing-I Wang and Chien-Chih Yu discussed to adopt the analytical hierarchy process to prioritize the performance indicators which have been determined in the digital divide balance scorecard. The architecture proposed by the research would be applied to examine the merits of the strategies. This research applies the AHP method to the DDBSC framework. In this paper, the weight of each criterion in the AHP tree is calculated and examples of demonstrating how the indicators are applied to the real cases to determine the performance of the strategies for reducing digital divides are given. In order to increase the accessibility of the healthcare support e-service, the second paper entitled "A Study on Healthcare Support e-Service Design for Senior Citizens" by Prof. Yuan-Chu Hwang tried to utilize multimedia streaming technology and video clips to present strokeprecaution knowledge for elderly senior citizens. This paper presents an e-service design on stroke-precaution for senior citizens, followed by its implementation and evaluation. With the healthcare support e-service, life quality for elderly senior citizens and their families could be significantly improved.
doi:10.4304/jcp.6.3.387-388 fatcat:6uf2oayvbbfibphaobqewpnkx4