Process-Based E-Service Composition for Modeling and Automating Zero Latency Supply Chains

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (), Hans Schuster (), Andrzej Cichocki () and Donald Baker ()
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Dimitrios Georgakopoulos: Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
Hans Schuster: Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
Andrzej Cichocki: Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
Donald Baker: Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)

Information Systems Frontiers, 2002, vol. 4, issue 1, No 4, 33-54

Abstract: Abstract E-services are teams of applications and humans (participating electronically) that work together to provide a service or a product. Virtual Enterprises (VEs) are business or organizations that provide products or services that are created and managed by combining and wrapping e-services provided by multiple independent enterprises. To operate efficiently VEs must form supply chains that utilize and manage e-services. In this paper, we propose a Service Oriented Process model (SOP) and describe the architecture and the basic design principles of the Collaboration Management Infrastructure (CMI), a system that supports SOP. SOP permits modeling of e-services and provides for e-service integration to construct efficient multi-enterprise supply chains. This is accomplished by modeling composite e-services as Multi-Enterprise Processes (MEPs). In particular, SOP supports service activities for modeling the services themselves, primitives for composing supply chains from services, and primitives for automating service coordination as required by a supply chain. The CMI system implements SOP and uses a semantic broker that has knowledge about the service capabilities an quality. Therefore, a MEP (and hence its supply chain) is capable of on-the-fly choice of the service providers that are best suited to its objectives (e.g., cheapest or fastest).

Keywords: process modeling; component integration; web service composition; supply chain management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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