Semantic integration of semistructured and structured data sources
ACM SIGMOD Record
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
OFFER: A Broker-Centered Object Framework For Electronic Requisitioning
TREC '98 Proceedings of the International IFIP/GI Working Conference on Trends in Distributed Systems for Electronic Commerce
Semantic Brokering over Dynamic Heterogeneous Data Sources in InfoSleuth(tm)
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Metabroker: A Generic Broker for Electronic Commerce
Metabroker: A Generic Broker for Electronic Commerce
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This paper presents an approach to the specification of external interfaces of an electronic broker used in the Architecture for Electronic Brokerage Systems (AEBS). The external interface specified by the AEBS architecture provides both rich functionality and backward compatibility with trading methods that are currently in use in the electronic marketplace. This is achieved by defining the interface at two levels: the external protocol interface and the external object interface. The external protocol interface has been defined in terms of traditional protocols in order to provide access to basic brokerage services for customers and suppliers that already operate in the electronic market. This facilitates the easy introduction of a broker to the market since no modifications are required on the customer or supplier side to use the new brokerage services. The advanced external object interface has been designed and defined using the CORBA model. This provides other actors that need advanced brokerage services with access to the full functionality of a broker. This paper focuses on the design of the external protocol interface of a brokerage system.