Rainer Eckstein

The Impact of Semantic Web Technologies on Job Recruitment Processes

Using Semantic Web technologies in the domain of online recruitment could substantially increase market transparency, lower the transaction costs for employers, and change the business models of the intermediaries involved. In this paper, we describe how online recruitment processes can be streamlined using Semantic Web technologies. We analyze the realization chances of such a scenario from the technological and business viewpoint. We describe a prototypical implementation of the required technological infrastructure and analyze the potential economic impacts, the interests of the involved parties, and potential changes to their business models.

Business to Consumer Markets on the Semantic Web

The emerging Semantic Web technologies have the potential to deeply influence the further development of the Internet Economy. In this paper we propose a scenario based research approach to predict the effects of these new technologies on electronic markets and business models of traders and intermediaries. We develop a concrete scenario for the domain of business to consumer electronic commerce and explain its technical realization. Furthermore, we analyse the potential impacts on market participants and highlight a range of technical and organizational obstacles which have to be solved before semantic technologies can be deployed in an e-business context.