Business-to-business interactions: issues and enabling technologies

Tools and Infrastructure Facilities for Controlling Non-Functional Properties in Inter-Enterprise in Collaborations

“…In relation to other work (e.g., survey [24], eNegotiation [25], OMNI [26], [27]) and outsourcing management systems we emphasise a) use of predefined contract templates that capture not only business level or technical level issues, but both; b) running a multipartner negotiation instead of bilateral negotiations; c) support of contract template evolution through the facilities for creating new business network models and policy variations; d) agility of business networks gained by operational time negotiations and renegotiations that is based on ontologies and abstract enough behaviour models created at design time; e) privacy of decisionmaking and using interoperability knowledge effectively for it; f) potential to use multiple negotiation protocols for different types of collaborations (auctioning systems, simple commitment protocols).…”

An XML-based data interchange protocol and supporting systems for online customs declaration

“…The related technologies and work related to the proposed protocol is EDI, XML, RosettaNet, cXML and ebXML. All of them are e-business frameworks and allow organizations in the e-business chain to interact with each other [8]. However, customs declaration is a special interaction process governed by public departments rather than an open business process.…”

VieBOP: Extending BPEL Engines with BPEL4People

“…As cooperation becomes increasingly important for companies [10], new challenges arise for the support of business to business scenarios by information technology [19]. While enterprises already profit from the use of traditional workflow management systems (WfMS) [11], the business process execution language (BPEL) [20] permits formal specification of processes and enables companies to collaborate with each other by interacting business processes [36].…”