Rated Tags as a Service: A Cloud-based Social Commerce Service

摘要

The rise of social media has influenced many web applications, particularly in the area of e-commerce. Especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) benefit from user-generated content, because these enterprises often do not have the dedicated resources to generate or categorize content. Moreover, SMEs often do not have the resources to create social media features by themselves. As a solution to these problems, a Cloud-based social commerce service named Rated Tags as a Service is presented in this paper. The intention of the Rated Tags system is to improve the decision making process of customers. This was already successfully evaluated in a user study. This paper discusses client-and server-side challenges for providing such a feature in a service-oriented way and proposes a corresponding Cloud-based architecture.