HYDRA: a middleware-oriented integrated architecture for e-procurement in supply chains

  • Authors:

  • Giner Alor-Hernandez;Alberto Aguilar-Lasserre;Ulises Juarez-Martinez;Ruben Posada-Gomez;Guillermo Cortes-Robles;Mario Alberto Garcia-Martinez;Juan Miguel Gomez-Berbis;Alejandro Rodriguez-Gonzalez

  • Affiliations:

  • Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba;Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid;Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on computational collective intelligence I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development paradigm has emerged to improve the critical issues of creating, modifying and extending solutions for business processes integration, incorporating process automation and automated exchange of information between organizations. Web services technology follows the SOA's principles for developing and deploying applications. Besides, Web services are considered as the platform for SOA, for both intraand inter-enterprise communication. However, an SOA does not incorporate information about occurring events into business processes, which are the main features of supply chain management. These events and information delivery are addressed in an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Taking this into account, we propose a middleware-oriented integrated architecture that offers a brokering service for the procurement of products in a Supply Chain Management (SCM) scenario. As salient contributions, our system provides a hybrid architecture combining features of both SOA and EDA and a set of mechanisms for business processes pattern management, monitoring based on UML sequence diagrams, Web services-based management, event publish/subscription and reliable messaging service.