Title :
On State Synchronization of Business Conversations
Author :
Molina-Jimenez, Carlos ; Shrivastava, Santosh ; Woodman, Simon
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Newcastle Univ., Tyne
Abstract :
The paper assumes that business interactions between trading partners are composed of well defined conversations (tasks), such as issue a purchase order, process payment, refund money, cancel purchase order, etc. Using RosettaNet partner interface processes (PIPs) as an example of these conversations, the paper discusses a method that guarantees that trading partners have a mutually consistent view of the state of business interactions despite encountering software and hardware related problems (e.g., clock skews, unpredictable transmission delays, message loss etc.). The paper develops centralized as well as distributed execution models and outlines the middleware functionality required for maintaining consistency
Keywords :
business data processing; middleware; RosettaNet partner interface processes; business conversations; distributed execution model; middleware; state synchronization; Clocks; Computer crashes; Delay; Hardware; Internet; Middleware; Propagation losses; Standards organizations; Synchronization; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
E-Commerce Technology, 2006. The 8th IEEE International Conference on and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2511-3
DOI :
10.1109/CEC-EEE.2006.65
