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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for the inter-organizational sharing of domain-specific capabilities. Perhaps an equally important emergence is the use of SOA to manage the sharing of disparate information within a distributed environment. SOA provides a platform for organizations to enable the user-driven advertisement, discovery, and retrieval of data. A major...
A critical success factor for enterprise application development is to get the systems specifications validated early in the planning and development process. Specification errors that are identified early on in the process are easier and less costly to fix. However, all too frequently business users only discover the impact of specifications once a system is deployed. It is therefore important to...
One of the challenges in SOA is to provide an efficient and effective way to select compatible Web service(s) and compose them into a functional service process that satisfies a user's needs. Moreover, the Web services(s) selected may be integrated with structures such as branches and merges to fulfill a task. This paper describes our system architecture and strategies on Web services composition...
The capabilities of organizations can be openly exposed, easily searched and discovered, and made readily-accessible to humans and particularly to machines, using service-oriented computing approaches. Artificial intelligence and software engineering researchers alike are tantalized by the promise of ubiquitously discovering and incorporating services into their own business processes (i.e. composition...
Identifying proper business processes, formalizing and documenting them has always been a challenge. Maintaining them in synchronization with changing business needs makes the problem harder. It becomes even harder when business processes are fully or partially implemented in IT systems where changes to the business cause changes in IT configurations. This paper presents an approach how IT configurations...
Today, most approaches for inter-organizational business processes start bottom-up from the interfaces and the workflows of each partner described on the IT layer. Alternatively, one may start from the commitments and agreements between business partners to reach their complementary business goals. The latter approach is target of the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM), which models a global choreography...
In the context of a research and development department of an enterprise, researchers regularly access, review, and use large amounts of literature, yet none of the exiting tools and solutions provide the wide range of functionalities required to properly manage these resources. Indeed, bibliography management systems manage the references and citations but fail to help researchers handle and locate...
Managing business collaboration is about coordinating the flow of information among organizations and linking their business processes into a cohesive whole. A consistent outcome is expected within and among involving organization. However, inadequate coordination onthe autonomous, heterogeneous, and long-lasting cross-organizational business processes can lead to inconsistent execution in loosely-coupled...
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