Title
HYDRA: a middleware-oriented integrated architecture for e-procurement in supply chains
Abstract
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development paradigm has emerged to improve the critical issues of creating, modifying and extending solutions for business processes integration, incorporating process automation and automated exchange of information between organizations. Web services technology follows the SOA's principles for developing and deploying applications. Besides, Web services are considered as the platform for SOA, for both intraand inter-enterprise communication. However, an SOA does not incorporate information about occurring events into business processes, which are the main features of supply chain management. These events and information delivery are addressed in an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Taking this into account, we propose a middleware-oriented integrated architecture that offers a brokering service for the procurement of products in a Supply Chain Management (SCM) scenario. As salient contributions, our system provides a hybrid architecture combining features of both SOA and EDA and a set of mechanisms for business processes pattern management, monitoring based on UML sequence diagrams, Web services-based management, event publish/subscription and reliable messaging service.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-15034-0_1
T. Computational Collective Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
service-oriented architecture,business process,pattern management,brokering service,supply chain management,event-driven architecture,web service,middleware-oriented integrated architecture,information delivery,web services-based management,web services technology,service oriented architecture,middleware,uml sequence diagram,supply chain,web services,eda,soa
Business process,Software engineering,Computer science,Knowledge management,Supply chain management,Supply chain,OASIS SOA Reference Model,Web service,Procurement,Service-oriented architecture,Business architecture
Journal
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
0302-9743
3-642-15033-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
19
Authors
8