Automated business-to-business integration of a logistics supply chain using semantic web services technology

  • Authors:
  • Chris Preist;Javier Esplugas-Cuadrado;Steven A. Battle;Stephan Grimm;Stuart K. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK;Hewlett-Packard Espanola SL, La Rozas, Spain;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK;Forschungszentrum Informatik(FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

  • Venue:
  • ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a demonstrator system which applies semantic web services technology to business-to-business integration, focussing specifically on a logistics supply chain. The system is able to handle all stages of the service lifecycle – discovery, service selection and service execution. One unique feature of the system is its approach to protocol mediation, allowing a service requestor to dynamically modify the way it communicates with aprovider, based on a description of the provider's protocol. We present the architecture of the system, together with an overview of the key components (discovery and mediation) and the implementation.