Affiliation:
1. Harbin University of Commerce
Abstract
Workflow management systems, a relatively recent technology, are designed to make work more efficient, integrate heterogeneous application systems, and support inter-organizational processes in electronic commerce applications. This paper presents an infrastructure and a mechanism for achieving dynamic Inter-enterprise workflow management using e-services provided by collaborative e-business enterprises. E-services are distributed services that can be accessed programmatically on the Internet, using SOAP messages and the HTTP protocol. In this work, we categorize e-services according to their business types. E-service requests are specified in the activities of a process model according to some standardized e-service templates and are bound to the proper service providers at run-time by using a constraint-based, dynamic binding mechanism.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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