Paper Info
Title
Business document interoperability as a service
Abstract
Standardized business documents are a prerequisite for successful information exchange in electronic business transactions. The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness (UN/CEFACT) provides a conceptual modeling approach, called Core Components, used by Business Partners (BPs) for defining business document models (BDMs). These BDMs are essential for defining service interfaces in service-oriented systems. However, in such a highly dynamic environment with ever-changing market demands, BPs are confronted with the need to revise their BDMs resulting in new versions of BDMs. Furthermore, BPs may dictate the use of new versions of BDMs. However, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may not always adopt new BDM versions due to the cost and effort involved, inhibiting electronic information exchange. In this paper, we present a framework for dealing with interoperability issues in service-oriented systems through providing BPs with Business Document Interoperability as a Service. Having such a framework at hand provides SMEs with a low-cost and light-weight approach for dealing with evolving market requirements and hence evolving business documents. Furthermore, we present a prototypical implementation as well as an evaluation of the framework proposed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/SOSE.2011.6139123
Service Oriented System Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
business document interoperability,defining business document model,conceptual modeling approach,new bdm version,business partners,standardized business document,electronic business transaction,business document,new version,service-oriented system,conceptual model,business,electronic commerce,co evolution,information exchange,electronic business,service oriented architecture,xml,open systems,semantics
Electronic business,Trade facilitation,Conceptual model,Interoperability,Computer science,Information exchange,Knowledge management,Business documents,Open system (systems theory),Service-oriented architecture
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-0410-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Pichler16713.20
Christian Huemer235371.56
Manuel Wimmer3202.21