On-Demand
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The Any2Any Idea (Beyond Web 2.0)

It is interesting that our vision "On-demand Any2Any e-Services" is composed of three hyphenated words - yet fittingly convey the right idea of the ensuing technology ahead. Such unintended wordsmithship clearly accentuating the tasks at hand are innovative and, at times, challenging, not of existent work singly, but of fused concepts of new and old. That is, services are enabled in the electronic environment with delivery on-demand facilitating communication channels from any to any.

The origin of the concept does not include any of the words. It is simply a belief that too many duplicates exist in this world, manifested by the WWW. These duplicates each has their own pros and cons. If they can come to as one, then the combined whole would likely be a better one at least. These sharing must be made effective; sharing without physical transport is not easy or simple before the birth of the Web, and the realization of the e-Platform.

A platform is in where people of similar interests gather and share.  An electronic platform (e-Platform) does not require physical co-existence.  Inasmuch a virtual environment that emulates the interaction of people - participants in here - would be sufficient to bring to bear of the knowledge base.  The e-Platform offers characteristics of interactivity, connectivity, interoperability and most importantly integrability, bringing a secure collaborative environment to the participants.

In the e-Platform, other services make easy to deal with well-defined tasks - both primitive and temporally manifested and eventually specialized.  These services, or e-Services, need no pre-requisite of known parties, or number of parties, creating the any-2-any necessity. The nature of the e-Services should be truly on-demand - that is, their existential nature with respective to the e-Platform is defined, at the time, as an indicative need of the participants.

This e-Platform of 'on-demand any2any eServices' covers many areas. We will start with the discussion with respect to two disciplines, hopefully leading to a generalization. The generalization has already pointed to e-Services as 3rd-party e-Services and visibility services. The tie-in of these two concepts required further research.

The two disciplines of interests to the authors of this site are 1) AOLA (Author-Once-Learn-Anywhere) e-Learning in the context of Mathematics Education, and 2) e-Business, as in the world of 'Business Chains' with the integrative glue of EPC-RFID (Electronic Product Code-Radio Frequency Identification). Proof-of-concept works are currently underway.

At first glance, the two principal areas of interests do not share commonality that call for the same operating environment as the e-Platform. But yet, the lack of an generalized glue limits the potential leverage of the Web to further developments in uncharted domains, subsequently eliminating duplicacy, realizing on-demand effectiveness with transparent manifestation, and achieving defined efficiency with less barriers.

Definition. Any-2-Any

Of relationship realized between 2 or more parties, of not necessary fore-knowledge of each others; in an electronic environment, the relationship bears the trust nature of connectivity, interactivity, interoperability and integrability.

[February 2005]