Alegria Baquero

Computational e-commerce
December 2011- ongoing. Collaborators: Richard N. Taylor
Fundamental components of e-commerce—namely negotiation, contracts, and business workflow—have been largely researched in isolation, resulting in divergent technologies that pose integration challenges. We inquire on the intersection of these e-commerce phases, and propose a computation-based model for the integration and dynamic co-adaptation of negotiation, contracts, and workflow. Work on this project has been published in the EC-Web 2012 conference in Vienna, and published in the E-Commerce and Web Technologies journal.

User oriented privacy-preserving techniques for personalized online information services
June 2012 - September 2012. Collaborators: Allan M. Schiffman
Privacy is a primary concern when using online services, mostly when accessing personal medical information for which disclosing critical private data is required. During my summer internship at CommerceNet, I conducted research on knowledge-based privacy-preserving techniques that protect the user from disclosing unnecessary information—private in nature and which could lead to user re-identification—but still obtaining high service accuracy. Our premise is that personalized online information services often request additional information for secondary purposes outside the scope of the user's service. As an outcome of this summer's work, a paper is in preparation for submission.

Integrative e-commerce architectures
September 2011- May 2012. Collaborators: Richard N. Taylor
This project is concerned with technologies that enable representing commercial contracts, negoti- ating these contracts, and that finally guide the inter-dependent workflow of decentralized parties. We conducted a survey of technologies that integrate negotiation, contracts, and business workflow concerns. The evaluation is based on criteria such as the approach towards the integration between these e-commerce phases, automation, dynamic adaptation, decentralization, arity of the interaction, and so on. This work was presented as the advancement to candidacy paper.

Architectural evaluation of e-commerce applications
August 2010 - November 2011. Collaborators: Richard N. Taylor
Limited research focuses on the domain-specific evaluation of e-commerce architectures. Attempting to fill this gap, we developed an architecture-based qualitative evaluation framework for e-commerce systems. Evaluation is based on criteria such as components and connectors, negotiation support, integration with external services, personalization, transactions, and so on. Methodologies included code review and dependency analysis. Work on this project has been submitted for publication.

COAST (COmputAtional State Transfer)
September 2009 - September 2011. Collaborators: Michael Gorlick, Kyle Strasser, Richard N. Taylor
The COAST architectural style subsumes content under computational exchange as the foundation for secure, adaptive, and decentralized systems. My research focus within the group is the design of multi- agency e-commerce systems that follow COAST constraints, resulting on a set of application scenarios and proposal collaboration. I have worked on creating bindings to the GStreamer audio/video library to augment COAST's infrastructure. Furthermore, I have worked on COAST's API documentation.


	Projects Computational e-commerce December 2011- ongoing. Collaborators: Richard N. Taylor Fundamental components of e-commerce—namely negotiation, contracts, and business workflow—have been largely researched in isolation, resulting in divergent technologies that pose integration challenges. We inquire on the intersection of these e-commerce phases, and propose a computation-based model for the integration and dynamic co-adaptation of negotiation, contracts, and workflow. Work on this project has been published in the EC-Web 2012 conference in Vienna, and published in the E-Commerce and Web Technologies journal. User oriented privacy-preserving techniques for personalized online information services June 2012 - September 2012. Collaborators: Allan M. Schiffman Privacy is a primary concern when using online services, mostly when accessing personal medical information for which disclosing critical private data is required. During my summer internship at CommerceNet, I conducted research on knowledge-based privacy-preserving techniques that protect the user from disclosing unnecessary information—private in nature and which could lead to user re-identification—but still obtaining high service accuracy. Our premise is that personalized online information services often request additional information for secondary purposes outside the scope of the user's service. As an outcome of this summer's work, a paper is in preparation for submission. Integrative e-commerce architectures September 2011- May 2012. Collaborators: Richard N. Taylor This project is concerned with technologies that enable representing commercial contracts, negoti- ating these contracts, and that finally guide the inter-dependent workflow of decentralized parties. We conducted a survey of technologies that integrate negotiation, contracts, and business workflow concerns. The evaluation is based on criteria such as the approach towards the integration between these e-commerce phases, automation, dynamic adaptation, decentralization, arity of the interaction, and so on. This work was presented as the advancement to candidacy paper. Architectural evaluation of e-commerce applications August 2010 - November 2011. Collaborators: Richard N. Taylor Limited research focuses on the domain-specific evaluation of e-commerce architectures. Attempting to fill this gap, we developed an architecture-based qualitative evaluation framework for e-commerce systems. Evaluation is based on criteria such as components and connectors, negotiation support, integration with external services, personalization, transactions, and so on. Methodologies included code review and dependency analysis. Work on this project has been submitted for publication. COAST (COmputAtional State Transfer) September 2009 - September 2011. Collaborators: Michael Gorlick, Kyle Strasser, Richard N. Taylor The COAST architectural style subsumes content under computational exchange as the foundation for secure, adaptive, and decentralized systems. My research focus within the group is the design of multi- agency e-commerce systems that follow COAST constraints, resulting on a set of application scenarios and proposal collaboration. I have worked on creating bindings to the GStreamer audio/video library to augment COAST's infrastructure. Furthermore, I have worked on COAST's API documentation.