A Formal Model of Peer-to-Peer Digital Product Marketplace

Ehikioya, Sylvanus A.

doi:10.2991/ijndc.2018.3.6.3

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“…This can be via a decentralized search by the users of one side or via centralized, automated matching by the platform software. Participation [27,35] indicates if the market that is intermediated by the platform is Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C), or Peer-to-Peer (P2P). The latter case holds when platform participants are considered as 'equals', where C2C is a specialization of P2P when users of at least two sides are only allowed to be private persons.…”

Section: Development Of the Business Model Agnostic Ontology For A Sh...mentioning

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Sharing Platform Ontology Development: Proof-of-Concept

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A sharing platform is a digital platform that facilitates access to underutilized goods by renting or lending them to others. Users become less dependent on ownership which improves efficiency, sustainability, and the sense of community. The Sharing Economy (SE) is considered a complex domain because value co-creation can occur between multiple types of platform users. Developing platform software that offers the right functionality for the intended digital platform is therefore challenging. To address this complexity, an ontology can be utilized, which is an explicit specification of a conceptualization that provides a controlled vocabulary and shared meaning regarding a domain. The use of a sharing platform ontology allows for more effective communication and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders in platform development and eventually drives the platform software development process. However, currently, it is not known how to develop such an ontology. In previous research, we developed the Digital Platform Ontology (DPO) and an extension of the DPO for describing platform business model choices. The DPO describes the digital platform domain in terms of digital platform types, including sharing platforms. However, a method to use the DPO and its business model extension for developing an organization-specific ontology that describes the functionality and business model of a specific existing or intended sharing platform was lacking. In this paper, we develop such a method using the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) and demonstrate it using a proof-of-concept based on the BlaBlaCar and Couchsurfing platforms.

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“…This can be via a decentralized search by the users of one side, or a centralized, automated matching by the platform software. The following two attributes are only applicable if the platform has multiple sides ms ; Participation [27,34] indicates if the market that is intermediated by the platform is Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) or Peer-to-Peer (P2P); the latter case holds when platform participants are considered as 'equals', where C2C is a specialization of P2P when users of at least two sides are only allowed to be private persons. The offering orientation [35] differentiates between product selling, result-oriented services or useroriented when it's a combination of the previous two.…”

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Comparing Digital Platform Types in the Platform Economy

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Gailly

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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In the domain of the platform economy we identified two gaps in the current literature. First the lack of a shared conceptualization of digital platform types. We solve this issue with a taxonomy giving an overview of digital platform attributes, with attribute values expressing the possible variations between platforms depending on their type. These attributes and attribute values are then used in the typology giving a clear overview of all the digital platform types and how they are related to each other. The second gap is the lack of knowledge concerning the software functionalities of digital platforms. We contribute to this with a proposal of a reference ontology allowing for a better communication between developers and other stakeholders. Our envisioned ontology can be used as a common language that all platform stakeholders can understand to facilitate future research and support ontology-driven development of digital platforms.

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“…Participation and offering orientation are only applicable if the platform has multiple sides. Participation [20,25] indicates if the market that is intermediated by the platform is Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) or Peer-to-Peer (P2P); the latter case holds when platform participants are considered as 'equals', where C2C is a specialisation of P2P when users of at least two sides are only allowed to be private persons. The offering orientation [26] differentiates between product selling, result-oriented services or useroriented offerings including leasing, renting, sharing and pooling of a product.…”

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Towards a Reference Ontology for Digital Platforms

Derave

Sales

Gailly

et al. 2020

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Digital platforms can be categorized into different types including 'multi-sided platform', 'digital marketplace', 'crowdfunding platform', 'sharing economy platform' and 'on-demand platform'. As there is a lack of knowledge regarding the requirements and design of these digital platform types, we developed a method to design a digital platform reference ontology based on a taxonomy. The taxonomy provides an overview of digital platform properties, with the property values expressing the possible variations between digital platforms depending on their type. For each property value, we can create a digital platform reference ontology module using the five-step approach proposed by Ruy et al. [1] based on the patterns of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). UFO is a high-level ontology that provides us with basic concepts for objects, events, social elements and their types, relations and properties. These digital platform reference ontology modules can be combined as building blocks to compose our reference ontology for expressing the functionality for digital platforms of all types. We believe this reference ontology can be a step towards a better understanding of digital platform functionality, better communication between stakeholders and eventually may facilitate future research and development of digital platforms.

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A Formal Model of Peer-to-Peer Digital Product Marketplace

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Sharing Platform Ontology Development: Proof-of-Concept

Sharing Platform Ontology Development: Proof-of-Concept

Comparing Digital Platform Types in the Platform Economy

Towards a Reference Ontology for Digital Platforms

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