Title :
A business model for B2B integration through Web services
Author :
Baghdadi, Youcef
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., SQU, Oman
Abstract :
Sharing Web services to support B2B integration becomes intensive and critical. The paper proposes a business model with multiple interfaced abstraction levels as a framework to generate data-centric Web services. A time/space constraint called factual dependency is used to aggregate attributes describing the business objects and coordination artifacts as described in the highest abstraction level of a business model, i.e. the universe of discourse. Each aggregation leads to a well-specified granular Web service. The resulting set of consistent Web services are then registered in a public or a private UDDI to be discovered and invoked by any business process. The proposed generation process differs from the current IT-perspective approaches that generate Web services directly from the redundant and duplicated elements in the information system.
Keywords :
Internet; commerce; electronic commerce; information resources; B2B integration; UDDI; Web services sharing; business model; business objects; business process; coordination artifacts; data-centric Web services; factual dependency; generation process; information system; Aggregates; Business process re-engineering; Computer science; DC generators; Information systems; Middleware; Raw materials; Time factors; Web services; XML;
Conference_Titel :
e-Commerce Technology, 2004. CEC 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2098-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICECT.2004.1319733