A Standardizing Architecture Model for B2B Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce (EC) can be defined as to use information technology for improving business relations between trading partners. The objectives of this work are to develop the reference model for EDEFO based B2B electronic commerce and to implement a prototype system for its fundamental issues such as business process, information standards, and information system integration. The research scope is to develop standards for related business processes and their information exchange, to develop XML EDI as the standard exchange method, and to implement a prototype system.