International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Business-to-business interactions: issues and enabling technologies
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Information and Management
How enterprise architectures can support integration
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Interoperability of heterogeneous information systems
Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
An evaluation and selection framework for interoperability standards
Information and Software Technology
A Holistic Architecture for Collaborative and Highly Automatized e-Business Platforms
ICDEW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshop
XML-based e-business frameworks and standardization
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Effects of Enterprise Interoperability on Integration Efforts in Supply Chains
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
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The adoption of advanced integration technologies that enable private and public organizations to seamlessly execute their business transactions electronically is still relatively low, especially among governmental bodies and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Current solutions often lack a common understanding of the underlying business document semantics and most existing approaches are not able to cope with the huge variety of business document formats, stemming from highly diverse requirements of the different stakeholders. Developed and applied in the course of the EU-funded research project GENESIS, this paper presents a comprehensive core component-based business document modelling approach that builds upon existing standards such as the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) and the UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS). These standards are extended by introducing the concept of generic business document templates out of which specific documents can be derived according to the actual user's needs. Key principle to achieve this flexibility is the integration of business context information that allows for modelling standard-based but at the same time customized business documents. The resulting modelling framework ranges from (tool-supported) graphical data models to the technical representation of the business documents as XML schema documents designed in compliance with the UN/CEFACT XML schema Naming and Design Rules (NDR).