The 4W framework for B2B e-contracting

Angelov, Samuil; Grefen, Paul

doi:10.1504/ijnvo.2003.003517

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“…From the opposite eSourcing domain a, complementary provider contractual sphere is projected to the external level. Since the respective contractual spheres in Figure 2 are isomorph, a consensus is given between the eSourcing parties, which is the prerequisite for a contract [54].…”

Section: Expressiveness Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

eContractual choreography-language properties towards cross-organizational business collaboration

Norta

Duan

et al. 2015

J Internet Serv Appl

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Meaningfully automating sociotechnical business collaboration promises efficiency-, effectiveness-, and quality increases for realizing next-generation decentralized autonomous organizations. For automating business-process aware cross-organizational operations, the development of existing choreography languages is technology driven and focuses less on sociotechnical suitability and expressiveness concepts and properties that recognize the interaction between people in organizations and technology in workplaces. This gap our suitability-and expressiveness exploration fills by means of a cross-organizational collaboration ontology that we map as a proof-of-concept evaluation to the eSourcing Markup Language (eSML). The latter we test in a feasibility case study to meaningfully support the automation of business collaboration. The developed eSourcing ontology and eSML is replicable for exploring strengths and weaknesses of other choreography languages.

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Section: Expressiveness Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

eContractual choreography-language properties towards cross-organizational business collaboration

Norta

Duan

et al. 2015

J Internet Serv Appl

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“…The architecture qualities are qualities that are important for the design of a ''good" e-contracting reference architecture. Initially, as an inspiration for the definition of non-functional qualities required in an e-contracting reference architecture, we used the list of non-functional qualities on information systems presented in Bass et al (2003) and existing publications on e-contracting (Angelov and Grefen, 2002, 2003b, 2004aGrefen et al, 2003;Griffel et al, 1998;Hoffner et al, 2001b;Merz et al, 1998). Based on our initial list of requirements, we defined a draft version of ERA.…”

Section: Required Qualities In a Reference Architecture For Econtractingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Evaluating the extent to which ERA provides functionalities for the support of the e-contracting concept serves as an additional indication for completeness of ERA. We analyzed ERA from the perspective of the ''4W e-contracting framework" (Angelov and Grefen, 2003b), which compared to other contracting frameworks (e.g., Greunz et al, 2000;Griffel et al, 1998) provides higher level of detail and covers a larger set of concepts (Angelov and Grefen, 2003b). To familiarize the reader with the ''4W econtracting framework", we provide a brief summary of it.…”

Section: Theoretical Evaluation Of Era For Completenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

An e-contracting reference architecture

Angelov

Grefen

2008

Journal of Systems and Software

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Business-to-business e-contracting aims at automating the contracting process between companies. It improves the efficiency of the contracting process and enables the introduction of new business models that can be supported by companies. For the development of an e-contracting system, an architecture is required that describes the system components and the communication channels between them. This paper presents a reference architecture for the development of e-contracting systems. The architecture is designed on the basis of a requirement analysis of e-contracting systems. Established architectural principles are used in its design. The architecture can serve as a foundation in the analysis and design of concrete architectures of e-contracting systems. Furthermore, it can be used as a standardization model that facilitates system integration and communication of ideas. Its value for both software architects and business professionals makes it an important tool in the analysis and implementation of e-contracting systems.

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“…In order to improve the effectiveness of the contracting process and to dynamically form VOs the need to develop forms of e-contracting has been identified. Several significant characteristics for the e-contracting process can be found in [1]. These proposals are however still limited by a number of factors which affect their practical implantation including: (i) Lack of common standards and ontologies, a situation difficult to overcome in a general "open universe" of enterprises; (ii) None of these proposals takes properly into account more subjective facets (soft computing issues) like trust, commitment, successful cooperation history, etc.…”

Section: Multi-agent Based Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%