Paper Info
Title
Process-Based Service Integration for Zero Latency Supply Chains in Virtual Enterprises
Abstract
Supply chains provide composite services or products by utilizing autonomous, heterogeneous, and/or conversational services provided by independent enterprises. In this paper, we propose a Service Oriented Process model (SOP) that can model and construct efficient multi-enterprise supply chains 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. One of the most important aspects of service modeling in SOP is decoupling service interface from service implementation. This enables MEPs and the corresponding supply chains to include placeholders, i.e., activities specified only by an abstract interface. These placeholders are substituted during the run time with one of available services that implement the specified abstract interface. The SOP service selection policy 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, fastest, or just available).
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/AIWORC.2000.843305
AIWoRC
Keywords
Field
DocType
composite service,available service,virtual enterprises,service interface,conversational service,process-based service integration,sop service selection policy,supply chain,service capability,service implementation,zero latency supply chains,service activity,service coordination,tellurium,quality management,quality of service,service quality,supply chain management,service provider,service model,investments,business communication,supply chains
Service management,Service quality,Quality of service,Knowledge management,Service provider,Differentiated service,Supply chain management,Supply chain,Service delivery framework,Business,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0628-3
2
1.34
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos12554580.54
Andrzej Cichocki25228508.42
Hans Schuster321551.80
Donald Baker438077.88