Developing an XML gateway for business-to-business commerce

Author

Huang, Shi-Ming ; Kwan, Irene ; Yen, David C. ; Hsueh, Shang-Yuen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

67

Abstract

Business-to-business (B2B) Electronic Business (EC) is speedily getting popular and companies are increasingly using this notion and technology for business transaction and data exchange among each other. Traditionally, using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on Value Added Network (VAN) is common for data exchange on B2B EC, however drawback are the trade-off between flexibility and efficiency among partners in the whole supply chain; cost is often an issue due to the lack of standard in information exchange. Now, the popularity of XML (Extensible Markup Language) helps companies to solve the problem because of its economical cost and flexibility. In this paper a model for data exchange is investigated so that the cost for information flow could be reduced and the flexibility of the supply chain could be improved

Keywords

electronic commerce; electronic data interchange; hypermedia markup languages; B2B EC; Extensible Markup Language; XML; XML gateway; business transaction; business-to-business commerce; cost; data exchange; information flow; supply chain; Application software; Business; Companies; Consumer electronics; Costs; Internet; Management information systems; Supply chain management; Supply chains; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0577-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISE.2000.882857

Filename

882857