A reference architecture for managing dynamic inter-organizational business processes

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• 作者：Alex Norta^a ; ^{alex.norta@gmail.com" class="auth_mail}Author Vitae ; Paul Grefen^b ; ^{p.w.p.j.grefen@tue.nl" class="auth_mail}Author Vitae ; Nanjangud C. Narendra^c ; ^{ncnaren@gmail.com" class="auth_mail}Author Vitae
• 关键词：eSourcing ; Inter-organizational ; Reference architecture ; Business process ; Ecosystems ; Cross-enterprise
• 刊名：Data and Knowledge Engineering
• 出版年：May 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：91
• 期：Complete
• 页码：52-89
• 全文大小：3913 K

文摘

For improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business collaboration, the need emerges to inter-organizationally match e-business services. Recent research activities show heightened attention into that direction with the ecosystems-emergence of service-oriented computing clouds. As this increases the business-, conceptual-, and technical governance complexity, a need exists for using a reference architecture to evaluate and design standard-, and concrete architectures for business-to-business (B2B) collaboration. In this paper, we fill that gap by presenting the eSourcing Reference Architecture eSRA that emerges from B2B-research projects and we check this with a scenario-based validation method. We demonstrate how eSRA enables a quick evaluation of not only research-based B2B-architectures but also of industry application suits. That way, we show the usability and applicability in that with the help of eSRA, system designers directly establish a comprehensive understanding of fundamental B2B concepts and develop higher-quality domain-specific architectures.