Incorporate Cova and Web services to support commercial applications

Author

Jiang, Jinlei ; Shi, Meilin ; Jing, Bo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 May 2005

Firstpage

317

Abstract

The emergence of e-commerce (EC) brings great challenges to both research community and industries. As an enabling technology, workflow is viewed as a good basis for EC solutions due to its immense power in dealing with complex tasks and integration of heterogeneous resources. However, there are many issues with existing workflow systems such as rigid process definition, lack of interoperability, limited support of transaction, to name a few. This paper details how to support EC applications by extending Cova, a meta-groupware with process management ability, to support Web services. Based on the ability of run-time process adjustment provided by Cova, the dynamics of EC applications can be well addressed, while the introduction of Web services facilitates the interaction between different organizations without violating their autonomy.

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; groupware; open systems; Cova service; Web service; e-commerce; heterogeneous resource; meta-groupware; process management; workflow system; Application software; Business; Computer industry; Computer network management; Computer science; Databases; Office automation; Production; Runtime; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-84600-002-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2005.194190

Filename

1504096