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Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWORC'00)
Process-Based Service Integration for Zero Latency Supply Chains in Virtual Enterprises
Buffalo, New York
April 27-April 29
ISBN: 0-7695-0628-3
Supply chains provide composite services or products by utilizing autonomous, heterogeneous, and/or conversational services provided by independent enterprises. In this paper, we propose a Service Oriented Process model (SOP) that can model and construct efficient multi-enterprise supply chains as Multi-Enterprise Processes (MEPs). In particular, SOP supports service activities for modeling the services themselves, primitives for composing supply chains from services, and primitives for automating service coordination as required by a supply chain. One of the most important aspects of service modeling in SOP is decoupling service interface from service implementation. This enables MEPs and the corresponding supply chains to include placeholders, i.e., activities specified only by an abstract interface. These placeholders are substituted during the run time with one of available services that implement the specified abstract interface. The SOP service selection policy uses a semantic broker that has knowledge about the service capabilities an quality. Therefore, a MEP (and hence its supply chain) is capable of on-the-fly choice of the service providers that are best suited to its objectives (e.g., cheapest, fastest, or just available).
Citation:
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Andrzej Cichocki, Hans Schuster, Donald Baker, "Process-Based Service Integration for Zero Latency Supply Chains in Virtual Enterprises," aiworc, pp.263, Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWORC'00), 2000
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