Title:	A GENERIC PROCESS MODELLING APPROACH FOR INTEROPERABLE E-BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
Author(s):	Aikaterini Maria Sourouni , Sotirios Koussouris , Yannis Charalabidis , Dimitris Askounis , Kostas Kalaboukas
ISBN:	978-972-8924-49-2
Editors:	Sandeep Krishnamurthy and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2007
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	E-business, Process Modelling, Interoperability, Transactions
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	75
Last Page:	82
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Recent research has given much attention to the problem of interoperability in various business domains; however the issue of interoperability in heterogeneous business domains – Enterprises, Governmental and Banking Institutions of different countries (cross-border) or Enterprises of different interests (cross-sector) - still remains a big challenge to tackle. This paper presents a generic process modelling approach for interoperable e-business transactions carried out mainly by Small and Medium Enterprises. According to this approach core models are constructed taking into account state-of-the art notations and methodologies which facilitate the Application-to-Application interconnection and the automated business documents exchange between enterprises, governmental and banking institutions. These models cover not only national or sector specific business domain transactions but also cross-border and cross-sector processes, which imply different requirements, as beyond differences in the execution way, different legal rules and data exchange are also present. The process modelling methodology is briefly presented, a complete list of the examined transactions is given and generic models are constructed, followed by a thorough analysis of the findings.
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