WISE: An Infrastructure for E-Commerce

12th International Conference on Root and Butt Rots

G. Alonso ; U. Fiedler ; A. Lazcano ; H. Schuldt ; C. Schuler ; N. Weiler

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-24/aflssw99.pdf
PID  :  743

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The Internet and the proliferation of inexpensive computing power in the form of clusters of workstations or PCs provide the basic hardware infrastructure for business to business electronic commerce in small and medium enterprises. Unfortunately, the corresponding software infrastructure is still missing. As part of the WISE project (Workflow based Interned SErvices), we have taken concrete steps to address this limitation: within WISE we have developed and deployed the software infrastructure necessary to support business to business electronic commerce in the form of virtual enterprises. The starting point was the idea to combine the tools and services of different companies as building blocks of a higher level system in which a process acts as the blueprint for control and data flow within the virtual enterprise. From here, the goal has been to build the basic support for an Internet trading community where enterprises can join their services to provide added value processes.