| A Hybrid Architecture for Highly Adaptive and Automated e-Business Platforms (2007) | |||||||||||||
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| In this work, we propose a novel e-Business architecture that takes into account the specific needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and present a model-driven and highly adaptive approach that facilitates the automation of cross-organizational business processes. Parts of the ebXML standard are leveraged for the initialization of business relationships and for ensuring semantic interoperability, while the Web Services stack builds the technical foundation for the actual execution of transactions. The envisioned architecture comprises active, Web Services-based adapters at the client side to shield technical peculiarities of local IT installations and to ensure seamless collaboration of the diverse stakeholders, but still relies on a central server that enables users to register themselves, to model supported processes and data as well as to negotiate the exact conditions of an electronic business relationship. The resulting approach can thus be considered as hybrid regarding the degree of centralism involved and with respect to the combination of the Web services stack and the ebXML standard as an infrastructural foundation. The Conference: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007) http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2007 Theme: Services: Science, Technology, and Business Celebrating the 2007 IEEE Congress on Services! Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (tab.computer.org/tcsc) Building on its great success in 2004, 2005, and 2006, the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007) continues to bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models with an emerging suite of ground-breaking technology that includes service-oriented architecture, business process integration and management, grid and utility computing. SCC 2007 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit, IEEE International Services Computing Contest, IEEE SOA Standards Symposium, IEEE Services Computing Workshops, IEEE Services Computing Ph.D. Student Symposium will be featured at this joint event. The theme of SCC 2007 is "Services: Science, Technology, and Business" Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT and computing technology to help people perform business processes, services, and applications more efficiently and effectively. At the core of a business model is a set of processes that jointly help yield a profit in an organization. As we can see, Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to many opportunities and few challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for supporting different business models. SCC 2007 has the following three major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Services-Centric Business Models, and Business Process Integration and Management. | |||||||||||||
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