A Context Model for B2B Collaborations

Author

Tan, P.S. ; Goh, A.E.S. ; Lee, S.S.G.

Author_Institution

Planning & Oper. Manage. (POM) Group, Singapore Inst. of Manuf. Technol., Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

115

Abstract

Context-awareness (CA) has been applied in different domains, particularly in ubiquitous computing, to provide better value-added services. CA has also been used, albeit sporadically, in business related applications. This paper discusses an on-going research effort in enhancing Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations through context awareness, specifically to support the formation of short and dynamic connectivity between partners collaborating in a supply chain. Through an understanding of context awareness and how companies evaluate and select prospective suppliers, a B2B Context Model is proposed to discover and match suitable partners. The prospective partners are represented as services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm.

Keywords

Web services; electronic commerce; software architecture; supply chain management; B2B collaborations; business-to-business collaborations; context-awareness; service-oriented architecture; supply chain collaboration; ubiquitous computing; value-added services; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Companies; Computer aided manufacturing; Context awareness; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Pervasive computing; Service oriented architecture; Ubiquitous computing; SOA; context-aware; services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services Computing, 2008. SCC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3283-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCC.2008.30

Filename

4578515