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A smart orchestrator of ecosystem in medical tourism

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ICEC '16: Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce: e-Commerce in Smart connected World

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2971603.2971627

Published: 17 August 2016 Publication History

Abstract

We are proposing a smart orchestrator as a platform to create and share values in ecosystem in combination with heterogeneous networks. As a smart orchestrator, generative Smart ORCHestrator for converged Tourism ecoSystem (SORCHeTS) supports opportunities to ecologically link multi-organism with symbiotic relationships for the seamlessly plugging. In this research, we are focusing on creation and adaptation of the medical tourism ecosystem on SORCHeTS. The medical tourism as a context-intensive ecosystem is constructed by symbiotic combination of common tourism and medical treatment networks. To do this, it is necessary to combine the keystones and flagships from medical treatment and common tourism organism to create and share productive values. To combine two ecosystems, SORCHeTS are comprised of Genotype and Phenotype modules. Genotype plays a role of creation values in combination with heterogeneous networks. Phenotype dynamically adapts the generative smart ecosystem depending on contextual conditions. Ontology is applied to support dynamic creation and adaptation of the smart ecosystem. To prove effectiveness of the proposed SORCHeTS, we proved interoperability, robustness, creativity, and productivity of newly combined medical tourism ecosystem.

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ICEC '16: Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce: e-Commerce in Smart connected World

August 2016

311 pages

ISBN:9781450342223

DOI:10.1145/2971603

Conference Chairs:
Toru Ishida
Kyoto Univ., Japan
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Norman Sadeh
CMU
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Jae Kyu Lee
KAIST, Korea
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Federico Casalegno
MIT
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Wooju Kim
Yonsei Univ., Korea
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Program Chairs:
Sohyeong Kim
Stanford Univ.
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Sung-Byung Yang
Kyung Hee Univ., Korea

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Spoladore DPessot E(2022)An Ontology-Based Decision Support System to Foster Innovation and Competitiveness Opportunities of Health Tourism DestinationsDigital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism10.1007/978-3-031-15457-7_4(61-71)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15457-7_4
Spoladore DPessot EBischof MHartl ASacco M(2021)Collaborative Design Approach for the Development of an Ontology-Based Decision Support System in Health TourismSmart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks 4.010.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_59(632-639)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_59

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