An information infrastructure and e-services for supporting Internet-based scalable e-business enterprises

The paper presents an information infrastructure for supporting Internet-based scalable e-business enterprises (ISEE). The information infrastructure is formed by a network of ISEE hubs, each of which has a number of replicable e-business servers providing various e-services to individuals and businesses. The servers are the implementations of a number of core technologies developed to facilitate collaborative e-business, including business event and rule management, active distributed objects, constraint satisfaction processing, and cost benefit analysis and selection. Using the e-services provided by these servers, other e-services such as constraint-based brokering, supplier selection, active business process management, and automated negotiation can be developed. Supply chain management is used as an example of collaborative e-business in the descriptions of these technologies and their implementations