Title: Information rich monitoring of interoperating services in privacy enabled B2B networks

Authors: Liam Peyton, Chintan Doshi, Jun Hu, Pierre Seguin

Addresses: School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada. ' School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada. ' School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada. ' School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada

Abstract: We examine how the Liberty Alliance framework for a privacy-enabled Business to Business (B2B) network of interoperating services called a |Circle of Trust| (CoT) can be leveraged to monitor activity across the entire network for the purposes of safeguarding and improving services. A proposed Audit Trail Service (ATS) is analysed as a first step in monitoring activity within a CoT. Then, a proposed data collection service is analysed as a mechanism for systematically correlating and analysing consumer activity and content usage on an individual and aggregate basis. The analysis is motivated and illustrated through an information-rich e-commerce scenario.

Keywords: e-commerce; privacy; B2B networks; Liberty Alliance; CoT; Circle of Trust; audit trail; data mining; electronic commerce; business-to-business; interoperating services; activity monitoring; data collection; consumer activity; content usage.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2010.034660

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 2010 Vol.4 No.3, pp.258 - 273

Received: 31 Dec 2009
Accepted: 31 Dec 2009

Published online: 14 Aug 2010 *

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