Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
ConceptBase—a deductive object base for meta data management
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: deductive and object-oriented databases
Readings in electronic commerce
Readings in electronic commerce
View maintenance and change notification for application program views
SAC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Fundamentals of Data Warehouses
Fundamentals of Data Warehouses
Distributed, Interoperable Workflow Support for Electronic Commerce
TREC '98 Proceedings of the International IFIP/GI Working Conference on Trends in Distributed Systems for Electronic Commerce
Active Views for Electronic Commerce
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views
VLDB '96 Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Source Integration in Data Warehousing
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Towards patterns of web services composition
Patterns and skeletons for parallel and distributed computing
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One way to facilitate effective business-to-business electronic commerce (EC) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is to provide a brokering service that is tailored to the needs of SMEs. While many of the larger companies use EDI for their electronic business exchanges, SMEs have to be more flexible and demand a less rigid system. In this paper we will present an architecture of a modular broker system that supports the whole EC process. Such a broker system thus requires facilities for mediating the exchange of information. The mediating role is fulfilled by a repository that manages the data of the modules. The repository also provides access to heterogeneous information coming from external sources using sophisticated metadata management. Furthermore, the repository allows to monitor the contents of the external sources and provides notification services to the users of the broker system.