Authors:
Geert Houben
1
;
Kris Luyten
1
;
Karin Coninx
1
and
Frank Schönherr
2
Affiliations:
1
Hasselt University – tUL – Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Belgium
;
2
MUL-Services GmbH, Germany
Keyword(s):
Automotive aftermarket, technical information, SOA, e-procurement, EAI, service provisioning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
e-Procurement and Web-Based Supply Chain Management
;
Market-Spaces: Market Portals, Hubs, Auctions
;
Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce
;
Public Sector Applications of E-Commerce
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The Block Excemption Regulation of the European Commission was enacted in 2002 with the goal to strengthen competition between dependent and independent repairers in the automotive after-sales market. The FP6 MYCAREVENT project embraces these goals while triggering new business opportunities by establishing a mobile accessible infrastructure as single gateway to different kinds of resources. This information procurement framework allows customers to find specific vehicle repair and diagnostic data from different car manufacturers and 3rd parties in the same way. In order to provide a higher degree of accessibility, extensibility and adaptivity, our service-oriented infrastructure presented in this paper is web-based and consists of three main components: Mobile Clients, Service Portal and Remote Services. New communication and multimedia technologies are invoked to improve interoperability, usability and maintenance of the underlying Mobile Service World. In this paper we focus on th
e architecture of our highly flexible procurement infrastructure. Standardized elements and methodologies ensure an integrated solution and enable easy expandability with new content, services and components.
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