Title
A reference architecture for managing dynamic inter-organizational business processes.
Abstract
For improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business collaboration, the need emerges to inter-organizationally match e-business services. Recent research activities show heightened attention into that direction with the ecosystems-emergence of service-oriented computing clouds. As this increases the business-, conceptual-, and technical governance complexity, a need exists for using a reference architecture to evaluate and design standard-, and concrete architectures for business-to-business (B2B) collaboration. In this paper, we fill that gap by presenting the eSourcing Reference Architecture eSRA that emerges from B2B-research projects and we check this with a scenario-based validation method. We demonstrate how eSRA enables a quick evaluation of not only research-based B2B-architectures but also of industry application suits. That way, we show the usability and applicability in that with the help of eSRA, system designers directly establish a comprehensive understanding of fundamental B2B concepts and develop higher-quality domain-specific architectures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.datak.2014.04.001
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
eSourcing,Inter-organizational,Reference architecture,Business process,Ecosystems,Cross-enterprise
Data mining,Corporate governance,Business collaboration,Business process,Computer science,Usability,Reference architecture,Business architecture,Database
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
91
1
0169-023X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.69
41
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alex Norta1204.58
Paul W. P. J. Grefen2110.69
Nanjangud C. Narendra338934.92