Advances in networking and telecommunications technology have led to increased physical connectivity but not logical connectivity. The latter requires heterogeneous and autonomously administered systems to engage in meaning exchange of information instead of mere bits and bytes. A high level of interoperability is an important pre-requisite for efficient exchange of goods and services.

The goal of this project is to develop an effective information infrastructure that facilitates information integration and brokering across a large network of autonomous systems. This work is supported by NUS Research Grant NUS/RP 970628.

Participants: Dr Stephane Bressan, Dr Ooi Beng Chin, Dr Tan Kian Lee.
Commencement: Aug 1997
 

Internet Banking

The Internet presents an effective delivery channel for products and services that a Bank may offer to its corporate and consumer customers. This features of such a system is demonstrated via a prototype system developed in cooperation with Standard Chartered Bank. In conjuction with this development, we have also conducted a survey of consumer attitudes toward Internet Banking. This survey was conducted in the last quarter of 1996 and has been useful in identifying contributing factors for the success of Internet Banking in the context of Singapore. Project Web Page.

Participants: Goh Khim Yong, Dr Ooi Beng Chin, Assoc Prof Wei Kwok Kee.
Commencement: June 1996.
 

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) on Internet is a modern business methodology that addresses the needs of organizations, merchants, and consumers to cut operating costs while improving the quality of goods and services and increasing the speed of service delivery. From a management perspective, the successful implementation of e-commerce  requires tight coordination and control among many participating agencies, and some level of organizational transformation is required. The objective of this project is to understand this transformation  from a business process reengineering perspective. A trading life cycle blueprint for e-commerce will be first developed with possible collaborating with industry. Subsequently, strategic application systems will be tested using this blueprint as a basis. Knowledge, experience, and expertise gained from research could be shared with students from NUS and managers from industry. At a later point of time, the trading life cycle blueprint might be commercialized as a development platform for electronic commerce application systems.

Participants: A/P Wei Kwok Kee, Dr Bernard Tan, Mr Teo Hock Hai
Commencement: 1998

I-Commerce
 

Information brokering and mediation services are essential components of public and corporate applications in new electronic markets and virtual communities. The I-Commerce group is experimenting with new technologies for gathering, indexing, filtering, sharing or redistributing information available on the Internet or within Intra- or Extranets. The group designs tools, techniques and study new paradigms to support the development of added value services for the electronic commerce of information. For more information, click here.

Participants: Dr Stephane Bressan, A/P Ooi Beng Chin
Commencement: June 1998