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Research Issues in Business-to- business E-commerce Allen Brown Microsoft Corporation
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Is this unprecedented? Revolutionary? No Some industries (like aerospace) have conducted e-commerce along their supply chains for decades. These traditional e-commerce relationships are/were static and expensive to establish.
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What is new? The Web has changed expectations. E-commercial relationships should be amenable to creation/destruction completely dynamically and cheaply. Delayed binding -- the what and how of an e-commercial relationship to be established at “run time” rather than “compile time”.
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The evolution of the basis for e- commerce Businesses interoperate through their applications Interoperation among applications has been difficult -- especially without a priori knowledge A loosening of binding: –Shared databases –Shared object models –Shared message models
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XML and XML schemata -- the basis for interoperation Message-mediated information interchange and workflow control Descriptive basis for object-modeling from the programming perspective Descriptive basis for data-modeling from the persistent storage and retrieval perspective
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Message/document models Developing industry specific schemata Enriching the semantic repertoire Describing message-to-message transformations Scalable message processing
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Object Models XML schemata to object descriptions Object descriptions to XML schemata Augmenting the usual notions of aggregation in object models
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Storage Models How to treat XML as data How to treat traditional data as XML How to gracefully integrate OO programming with an XML mediated database
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