Using Web Services in Business-to-Business Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 61-97
Author(s):  
Frank Goethals ◽  
Jacques Vandenbulcke ◽  
Wilfried Lemahieu
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Integration Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
The Web

The Web services paradigm promises well for the future of Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi). Currently, however, this paradigm is still in its infancy and organizations investing in Web services are facing many challenges. In this chapter we discuss some important B2Bi issues and examine how Web services could play their part in these. Nowadays, many Web services standards are being drawn up, but most of these are still immature and do not fully answer the proposed challenges. This chapter presents some rather mature standards. The goal of the authors is to show the importance of a flexible and cheap integration technology, and to discuss how the idea behind Web services fits in this vision, as well as to clarify the role of some important Web services standards.

Using Web Services in Business-to-Business Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 1997-2020
Author(s):  
Frank Goethals ◽  
Jacques Vandenbulcke ◽  
Wilfried Lemahieu
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Integration Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
The Web

The Web services paradigm promises well for the future of Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi). Currently, however, this paradigm is still in its infancy and organizations investing in Web services are facing many challenges. In this chapter we discuss some important B2Bi issues and examine how Web services could play their part in these. Nowadays, many Web services standards are being drawn up, but most of these are still immature and do not fully answer the proposed challenges. This chapter presents some rather mature standards. The goal of the authors is to show the importance of a flexible and cheap integration technology, and to discuss how the idea behind Web services fits in this vision, as well as to clarify the role of some important Web services standards.

The Role of Expertise in the Evaluation of Computing Architectures

2010 ◽  
pp. 112-141
Author(s):  
Akhilesh Bajaj
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Computer Architecture ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Computer Architectures ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Network Computer ◽  
Expert And Novice ◽  
Outcome Differences ◽  
The Web

Recently, there has been considerable interest in evaluating newer computer architectures such as the Web services architecture and the network computer architecture. In this work we investigate the decision models of expert and novice IS managers when evaluating computing architectures for use in an organization. This task is important because several consumer choice models in the literature indicate that the evaluation of alternative products is a critical phase that consumers undergo prior to forming an attitude toward the product. Previous work on evaluating the performance of experts vs. novices has focused either on the process differences between them, or on the performance outcome differences, with work in MIS focusing primarily on process differences. In this work, we utilize a methodology that examines both aspects, by constructing individual decision models for each expert and novice in the study. There is a growing consensus in the management literature that while experts may follow different processes, very often their performance does not differ significantly from novices in the business domain.

Different Types of Business-to-Business Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Frank Goethals ◽  
Jacques Vandenbulcke ◽  
Wilfried Lemahieu
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Extended Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Integration ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Business To Business

In this chapter we argue that there exist two basic forms of business-to-business integration (B2Bi), namely extended enterprise integration and market B2Bi. This chapter clarifies the meaning of both concepts, shows that the difference between both is fundamental, and discusses the consequences of the difference in the realm of Web services development. The importance of coordination and the role of standards are studied for both types of e-business. The authors hope this chapter clearly shows the foundations of B2Bi and that the chapter as such brings clarity into B2Bi practices.

The Role of Narrative Elements in Gamification Towards Value Co-Creation

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-227
Author(s):  
Cheah Wen Kit ◽  
Izzal Asnira Zolkepli
Keyword(s):  
Application System ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Interactive Engagement ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Future ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
User Motivation ◽  
Narrative Element ◽  
The Web

This article discusses the role of narrative element in gamification towards value co-creation in a crowdsourcing application system. The discourse addresses the gap of knowledge to understand the user motivation and experience to co-create value in a gamified system. Value co-creation is an interactive engagement process that refers to the act of collaborating with a group of intended consumers through a crowdsourcing approach. As the decentralisation of the web enables participation of people to shape the future based on their contributions, understanding Internet users' motivation and experience to co-create value is crucial in ensuring that the initiatives are reciprocated by the intended parties. As gamification has been widely utilised in numerous contexts in order to encourage users to contribute their resources of knowledge and skills, the effectiveness of its elements, namely narrative, remains questionable.

Efficient Discovery of Provider Services in a Cloud-Based Supply Chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Souheila Boudouda ◽  
Mahmoud Boufaida
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Negotiation Protocol ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
The Web

This paper proposes a framework of services selection and classification for an efficient provider's services discovery in a cloud-based supply chain. This framework combines the advantages of the web service technology and agent paradigm to select dynamically the best services among those that operated in a supply chain. It is based on two levels: the UDDI cloud level and the agent one. The UDDI cloud level allows web services, which represent providers' business functionalities, to be classified, discovered, selected, and invoked by agents that are applied to the supply chain construction. The agent level contains an agent society that manages the different steps of cooperation and negotiation between the different business entities in a supply chain, as business-to-business and business-to-customer transactions. On the basis of the characteristics of supply chain, a negotiation protocol between agents has been proposed.

scholarly journals Algorithms of the Web

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Przemysław Szews
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
E Mail ◽  
The Web

The article tackles the problem of the existence of algorithms in selected services and Internet websites. The interfacing of media is the starting point for this discourse, aimed at presenting the processes of automation in information distribution, the individualisation of messages and profiling in websites. The threats resulting from dynamically developing enterprises aimed at providing the website user with artificial intelligence – in terms of both social networks and mobile applications – are explicated in detail. The examples presented in the article refer to Internet recommendation systems, e-mail applications, voice assistants, and mechanisms responsible for the functioning of social networks. Speculations on algorithms omnipresent on the Web lead us to reflect on how the journalism will be redefined in the future, since it seems that the role of the journalist will be to moderate discussion and select the themes to be discussed; it is quite likely, though, that the themes selected will be compiled by specialised software.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WEB SERVICES MIDDLEWARE TO SUPPORT FAIR NON-REPUDIABLE INTERACTIONS

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 565-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICK COOK ◽  
PAUL ROBINSON ◽  
SANTOSH K. SHRIVASTAVA
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
End User ◽  
Audit Trail ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Flexible Framework ◽  
Services Implementation ◽  
Application Requirements ◽  
Business To Business

The use of open, Internet-based communications for business-to-business (B2B) interactions requires accountability for and acknowledgment of the actions of participants. Accountability and acknowledgment can be achieved by the systematic maintenance of an irrefutable audit trail to render the interaction non-repudiable. To safeguard the interests of each party, the mechanisms used to meet this requirement should ensure fairness. That is, misbehavior should not disadvantage well-behaved parties. Despite the fact that Web services are increasingly used to enable B2B interactions, there is currently no systematic support to deliver such guarantees. This paper introduces a flexible framework to support fair non-repudiable B2B interactions based on a trusted delivery agent. A Web services implementation is presented. The role of the delivery agent can be adapted to different end user capabilities and to meet different application requirements.

Different Types of Business-to-Business Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Frank Goethals ◽  
Jacgues Vandenbulcke ◽  
Wilfried Lemahieu ◽  
Monique Snoeck
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Extended Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Integration ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Business To Business

In this chapter we argue that there exist two basic forms of business-to-business integration (B2Bi), namely extended enterprise integration and market B2Bi. This chapter clarifies the meaning of both concepts, shows that the difference between both is fundamental, and discusses the consequences of the difference in the realm of Web services development. The importance of coordination and the role of standards are studied for both types of e-business. The authors hope this chapter clearly shows the foundations of B2Bi and that the chapter as such brings clarity into B2Bi practices.

Concepts and Operations of Two Research Projects on Web Services and Mobile Web Services

2009 ◽  
pp. 891-908
Author(s):  
Zakaria Maamar
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobile Web Services ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
The Web

Today, Internet technologies are enabling a wave of innovations that have an important impact on the way businesses deal with their partners and customers. Most businesses are moving their operations to the Web for more automation, efficient business processes, and global visibility. Web services are one of the promising technologies that help businesses in achieving these operations and being more Web-oriented. Besides the new role of the Internet as a vehicle of delivering Web services, a major growth in the field of wireless and mobile technologies is witnessed. Because users are heavily relying on mobile devices to conduct their operations, enacting Web services from mobile devices and possibly downloading these Web services for execution on mobile devices are avenues that academia and industry communities are pursuing. M-services denote the Web services in the wireless world. In this chapter, two research initiatives carried out at Zayed University are presented and referred to as SAMOS, standing for Software Agents for MObile Services, and SASC, standing for Software Agents for Service Composition.

Using a Standards-Based Integration Platform for Improving B2B Transactions

2007 ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
A. Ciganek ◽  
M. Haines ◽  
W. Haseman ◽  
L. Ngo-Ye
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Integration Platform ◽  
Integration Technology ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
Xml Web ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
A Company ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter presents a specific case in which a company explores the use of XML Web services in conjunction with an integration broker. Several business-to-business (B2B) approaches are developed to provide insight into the ability of modern integration technology to improve B2B interactions and to allow a broader group of businesses to participate. Furthermore, technical details and integration methodology principles are presented that can be used as points of reference for scenarios in which the same or a similar set of technologies is applied to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of B2B transactions. An evaluation of the B2B approaches is presented accompanied by a discussion of several key lessons. This chapter then ends with some concluding remarks.

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