A Review on Impact of COVID-19 on E-Commerce

With technology advancing at such a substantial pace, we have entered into an era where even business processes are taking place over the internet. It has also become the need of an hour because at present the entire world is dealing with a pandemic which has left everybody to stay back at their homes, even meeting our friends and relatives or going outside for essentials have become strenuous. For reducing this psychological stress and providing comfort to people e-commerce has played a major role in every aspect, people during the pandemic have used electronic commerce in ordering food to essentials. The paper contains a study and review of various research papers and articles on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on electronic commerce industry. The paper also presents the contribution of e-commerce in the current situation how it has helped people across the world by delivering essentials and other goods and services. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Advances in pattern-based ontology engineering

Ontologies are the corner stone of data modeling and knowledge representation, and engineering an ontology is a complex task in which domain knowledge, ontological accuracy and computational properties need to be carefully balanced. As with any engineering task, the identification and documentation of common patterns is important, and Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) provide ontology designers with a strong connection to requirements and a better communication of their semantic content and intent. This book, Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering, contains 23 extended versions of selected papers presented at the annual Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP) between 2017 and 2020. This yearly event, which attracts a large number of researchers and professionals in the field of ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, covers issues related to quality aspects of ontology engineering and ODPs for data and knowledge representation, and is usually co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), apart from WOP 2020, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered by the papers collected here focus on recent advances in ontology design and patterns, and range from a method to instantiate content patterns, through a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations and applications. The book provides an overview of important advances in ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, and will be of interest to all those working in the field. © 2021 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved.