Architectural Design of BIRIS-Based Marine Logistics Service Platform and Related Interoperability Issues

Marine logistics service is one of the fundamental production services to support importing and exporting business. There are so many types of service providers (e.g., ship owners, freight forwarders, docks, warehouses, trucking companies, etc) interacting with each other to co-produce value to customers (i.e., cargo owners). Designing an IT-enabled service system to support such complex co-production and improve service quality is quite necessary. Based on investigation of current states and business requirements of this domain, we import BIRIS (bilateral resource integration service) as the mode of the marine logistics service platform. Architectural design of BIRIS-based platform is presented. Key business services are listed and a set of softwarized Web services and their choreographic scenarios that support implementation of business services are illustrationally demonstrated. Several interoperability issues concerned in this platform are summarized and briefly discussed.