Frontiers of electronic commerce
Frontiers of electronic commerce
Understanding electronic commerce
Understanding electronic commerce
Extranets: building the business-to-business Web
Extranets: building the business-to-business Web
Corporate Intranet
Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business
Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business
A CORBA compliant transactional workflow system for internet applications
Middleware '98 Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing
Mapping Service Components to EJB Business Objects
EDOC '01 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Trusted Mediation for E-service Provision in Electronic Marketplaces
WELCOM '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce
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Service provisioning is at the base of business economy, and a major driver for business-to-business interaction. The strong competition induced by the globalization of the markets is forcing businesses to concentrate on their core competencies, and to rely on specialized third parties for the provisioning of corollary service infrastructure. New expectations and opportunities are emerging for business uses of the Internet, and value chain optimization is a priority.The role that the Internet is playing in the business-service market, at the moment revolves around a one-to-one model. Once two businesses have established a relationship, the Internet mainly acts as a communication channel. Efficiency is an important benefit offered by the electronic format of transactions, but very little value is added to the transaction itself. The decision on the best provider for a service and the trust in its capability to deliver the quality expected are instead high-value components for business transactions.Aim of our research is to explore electronic service provision in business-to-business scenarios, focusing on multi-party service composition. A composition-oriented service model has been designed, and it is presented together with the prototype of its support infrastructure.