Title :
Processes in electronic commerce
Author :
Alonso, G. ; Hagen, C. ; Lazcano, A.
Author_Institution :
Inf. & Commun. Syst Res. Group, Inst. of Technol. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
Trading communities, virtual business processes and virtual enterprises are key elements in today´s electronic commerce. We argue that supporting these notions is similar to supporting the development of coarse grained distributed programs and that these programs can be abstracted as processes. Following this idea, we have developed a language for the enactment of processes that incorporates several important features like exception handling, event management and transactional guarantees. We describe these features and discuss the use of processes in E-Comm
Keywords :
Internet; distributed programming; electronic commerce; exception handling; transaction processing; Internet; coarse grained distributed programs; electronic commerce; event management; exception handling; trading communities; transactional guarantees; virtual business processes; virtual enterprises; Application software; Catalogs; Companies; Costs; Data handling; Electronic commerce; Humans; Identity management systems; Postal services; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0225-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776413
