AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF INTER-ENTERPRISE PROCESSES WITH HIERARCHICAL BROKER FRAMEWORK

Shun-Fa Chang, Li-Chen Fu, Ming-Yu Tsai

2004

Abstract

In recent years, the manufacturing technologies are more and more complex. Almost all production processes need cooperation among multiple enterprises. It is true that today’s manufacturing process is a complex workflow forming a supply chain. Each enterprise provides their services to accomplish professional processes. With the growth of Internet usage, there are more and more services able to be processed on the web. Web-service is one of the applications on Internet and it can help enterprises cooperate with one another in their services easily. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical Broker Framework to provide an advanced broker function for enterprises’ cooperation. In this framework, we can classify all services to keep searching easier, to present the relations between two enterprises more flexibly, to match buyers and sellers more precisely, and to cut down broker’s loading. On the ride of an enterprise client, we do not have to modify any existing enterprise architecture. Beside, we will also design an adapter to connect the broker server and the existing enterprises. By these designs, we try to find an automatic way to integrate these enterprise processes to improve efficiency and reduce their transaction overheads.

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Chang S., Fu L. and Tsai M. (2004). AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF INTER-ENTERPRISE PROCESSES WITH HIERARCHICAL BROKER FRAMEWORK . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 62-69. DOI: 10.5220/0002613500620069


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Shun-Fa Chang and Li-Chen Fu and Ming-Yu Tsai},
title={AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF INTER-ENTERPRISE PROCESSES WITH HIERARCHICAL BROKER FRAMEWORK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={62-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002613500620069},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF INTER-ENTERPRISE PROCESSES WITH HIERARCHICAL BROKER FRAMEWORK
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Chang S.
AU - Fu L.
AU - Tsai M.
PY - 2004
SP - 62
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0002613500620069