Title :
The Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprise in Digital Business Ecosystem; Accelerating The Evolution and The Need for Web 2.0 and Visualization
Author :
Salam, Maher ; Steenkamp, Annette Lerine ; Khoury, Fadi
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Technol. Univ., Southfield, MI
Abstract :
The pursuit of digital business ecosystem (DBE) means to digitally socialize, collaborate, negotiate, operate and automatically orchestrate business services in an open and self organizing environment. The essence of this paper is to suggest a stage based evolution of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) added to a list of interrelated techniques and concepts that would accelerate DBE environments evolution. DBE Distributed Knowledge Base (DKB) and Web 2.0, via its breakthrough capabilities (i.e. attractiveness of voluntarily participation, Open API, service mashup [13], social networks, knowledge sharing and more), are the backbone of the suggested techniques.
Keywords :
small-to-medium enterprises; virtual enterprises; Web 2.0; digital business ecosystem; distributed knowledge base; small and medium enterprise; Acceleration; Cascading style sheets; Collaboration; Consumer electronics; Ecosystems; Mashups; Organizing; Social network services; Visualization; YouTube; Collaboration; Digital Business Ecosystem; Small and Medium Enterprises; Visualization; Web2.0 Attractiveness of participation;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Damascus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1751-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1752-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529983
