EMP — A Database-Driven Electronic Market Place forBusiness-to-Business Commerce on the Internet

  • Authors:
  • Susanne Boll;Andreas Grüner;Armin Haaf;Wolfgang Klas

  • Affiliations:
  • Database and Information Systems (DBIS), Computer Science Department, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg, 89069 Ulm, Germany. boll@informatik.uni-ulm.de;Database and Information Systems (DBIS), Computer Science Department, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg, 89069 Ulm, Germany. agruener@informatik.uni-ulm.de;Database and Information Systems (DBIS), Computer Science Department, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg, 89069 Ulm, Germany. ahaaf@informatik.uni-ulm.de;Database and Information Systems (DBIS), Computer Science Department, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg, 89069 Ulm, Germany. klas@informatik.uni-ulm.de

  • Venue:
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Electronic commerce systems for business-to-business commerce on the Internet are still in their infancy. The realization of Internet electronic markets for business-to-business following a n-suppliers: m-customers scenario is still unattainable with todays solutions.Comprehensive Internet electronic commerce systems should provide for easyaccess to and handling of the system, help to overcome differences in timeof business, location, language between suppliers and customers, and atthe same time should support the entire process of trading forbusiness-to-business commerce. In this paper, we present a DBMS-based electronic commerce architectureand its prototypical implementationfor business-to-business commerce according to a n-suppliers: m-customers scenario.Business transactions within the electronicmarket are realized by a set of modular market services. Multiple physically distributed markets can be interconnected transparentlyto the users and form one virtually central market place. The modeling andmanagement of all market data in a DBMS gives the system a solid basisfor reliable, consistent, and secure trading on the market.The generic and modular system architecture can be applied to arbitraryapplication domains. The system is scalable and can cope with an increasing number of singlemarkets, participants, and market data due to the possibility toreplicate and distribute services and data and herewith to distributedata, system, and network load.