Title :
Incorporate Cova and Web services to support commercial applications
Author :
Jiang, Jinlei ; Shi, Meilin ; Jing, Bo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The emergence of e-commerce (EC) brings great challenges to both research community and industries. As an enabling technology, workflow is viewed as a good basis for EC solutions due to its immense power in dealing with complex tasks and integration of heterogeneous resources. However, there are many issues with existing workflow systems such as rigid process definition, lack of interoperability, limited support of transaction, to name a few. This paper details how to support EC applications by extending Cova, a meta-groupware with process management ability, to support Web services. Based on the ability of run-time process adjustment provided by Cova, the dynamics of EC applications can be well addressed, while the introduction of Web services facilitates the interaction between different organizations without violating their autonomy.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; groupware; open systems; Cova service; Web service; e-commerce; heterogeneous resource; meta-groupware; process management; workflow system; Application software; Business; Computer industry; Computer network management; Computer science; Databases; Office automation; Production; Runtime; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-84600-002-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSCWD.2005.194190
