Enterprise Collaboration (eBook)

On-Demand Information Exchange for Extended Enterprises

David M. Levermore, Cheng Hsu (Autoren)

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2006 | 2006
XIV, 176 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-34567-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book goes beyond the discussion of global databases and presents a general Enterprise Resources Market model to facilitate the management and integration of enterprise information resources in a cooperating mode. It is the first book to analyze the problem from the perspective of information management and to present a solution for a key aspect of the cooperation problem-on-demand information exchange.

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Global supply chain is a fact of life in today's world. From the perspective of the First World, this practice reigns in outsourcing of jobs that, in the view of many, threatens a way of life. This argument actually implies that outsourcing represents a fair chance for the Third World to catch up and reverse-leverage through market economy. However, many in the Third World are also opposed to the global market economy from an opposite argument. The fact that matters is, of course, that globalization continues to progress relentlessly in its own momentum, and that the national playing grounds continue to level globally for both Worlds. Would globalization results in the rich nations getting richer and the poor poorer; or would it help the world united in the same economical reason? The questions that we the researchers could try to answer are a different kind, the kind that leads to the understanding of the elements of "e;the fittest"e; in the global competition. For instance, what defines an enterprise's staying power on the top of the food chain, or an economy's ability to design and control the global supply chains, in the long term? Evidently, to understand this ability the field needs to study the engineering prowess required, as much as the finance and management if the history of industrial revolution is any guide. Yet, the study on the engineering of global supply chains has been largely lacking.

Inhalt

Contents 7
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 12
Chapter 1 ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION 13
1. THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION 13
2. ON-DEMAND INFORMATION EXCHANGE: THE GOAL 18
3. TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL: THE RESEARCH AND SOLUTION 21
4. INTEGRATION OF A MARKET WITH THE METADATABASE: THE RESULTS 26
4.1 The basic logic of the two-stage solution approach 28
Chapter 2 FOUNDATIONS 32
1. OVERVIEW 32
2. MARKET-BASED MECHANISMS FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION: MATCHING, AUCTION, AND AGENTS 33
3. GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEMS 39
4. EMERGING INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES: WEB SERVICES, P2P AND THE SEMANTIC WEB 44
4.1 Web Services 44
4.2 Peer-to-Peer Networks 44
4.3 The Semantic Web 45
4.4 XML 45
5. METADATABASE AND ROPE 46
5.1 Two Stage Entity Relationship Method (TSER) 48
5.2 Metadatabase Management System (MDBMS) 49
5.3 ROPE 49
6. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWOSTAGE COLLABORATION MODEL WITH THE RELATED LITERATURE 50
Chapter 3 A GENERAL MODEL 53
1. OVERVIEW 53
2. MARKET-STYLE SELF-SCHEDULING 54
3. THE AGENT-BASED, PEER-TO-PEER PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE MODEL 57
4. THE ENTERPRISE RESOURCES MARKET METHODS 59
4.1 The Agent Model: Task Agent, Agent-Base, and Metadatabase 59
4.2 The Blackboard: Match, Negotiation-Auction, and Assignment 61
4.3 The Proxy Server: Peer-to-Peer Transaction and Systems Inter-operation 62
4.4 Peer-to-Peer Negotiation: Virtual and Distributed Mini-Blackboards 64
4.5 Implementation Model: Organizational Metrics and Data Standard 66
4.6 Open Common Schema: a Metadatabase for Extensible Information Integration 67
Chapter 4 THE CORE LOGIC OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL 71
1. OVERVIEW 71
2. THE NEW ELEMENTS OF GLOBAL QUERY 72
3. QUERY MATCHING: IDENTIFYING COMPLEMENTARY QUERIES 74
3.1 Step 1 - Identify Matching Data Items 74
3.2 Step 2 - Combine Queries to Identify a Feasible Solution 76
3.3 Item and Join Feasible Solutions 77
3.4 Step 3 - Constraint Matching 83
4. QUERY ALLOCATION: ASSIGN QUERIES TO WINNING EXPORT DATABASES 87
5. QUERY EXECUTION: OBTAINING RESULTS FROM THE EXPORT DATABASE 89
6. A SUMMARY OF THE QUERY MATCHING PROCESS 89
7. THE ADVANTAGES OF THE NEW EXECUTION METHODS WHEN COMPARED WITH TRADITIONAL APPROACHES 91
7.1 Database Autonomy 91
7.2 Database Heterogeneity 92
7.3 Integration Scalability and Open Architectures 93
Chapter 5 THE ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL 94
1. OVERVIEW 94
2. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE BLACKBOARD 95
2.1 The Conceptual Structure of the Query Database 98
2.2 The Conceptual Structure of the Rulebase 99
3. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE EXPORT DATABASE SHELL 100
4. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE EXTENDED METADATABASE GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEM 103
5. EXTENDED MQL: A QUERY LANGUAGE FOR THE TSCM 104
Chapter 6 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL 110
1. GLOBAL DATABASE QUERY IN A SUPPLYCHAIN 110
1.1 The Global Query Process: A Working Example 111
1.2 Query Matching and Allocation at the Blackboard 114
1.3 Insert Query Operation on the Blackboard 117
1.4 Query Execution at the Export Database 119
2. THE PROTOTYPE OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL 120
2.1 Specifications of the Prototype Environment 120
2.2 Implementation of the Metadatabase and Blackboard 121
2.3 Query Formulation using the exMGQS 122
Chapter 7 THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL 125
1. OVERVIEW 125
2. A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE TSCM 126
2.1 Adjusting the Logical Model to Improve TSCM Performance 134
3. TSCM VS. FEDERATED DATABASE SYSTEMS: EXTENDING TRADITIONAL DATABASE INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY 135
4. TSCM VS. MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS: THE TSCM AS A PLATFORM FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS 138
5. TSCM VS. SUPPLY-CHAIN INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURES: AN ARCHITECTURE FOR GLOBAL QUERY IN THE SUPPLY-CHAIN 141
5.1 Interoperability of Distributed and Heterogeneous Suppliers in the Supply-Chain 142
5.2 Customized Views in the Supply-Chain 143
5.3 Traversal of the Supply-Chain 145
6. TSCM VS. ERM: A GLOBAL QUERY APPROACH TO AGENT TASK MATCHING 146
Chapter 8 WHERE DO WE STAND? 148
1. A REVIEW OF THE RESULTS 148
2. COMPARATIVE PROPERTIES 151
3. OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUING WORK 152
Appendix 155
1. THE OPERATIONAL ELEMENTS OF THE TWOSTAGE COLLABORATION MODEL 156
2 THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE METADATABASE AND THE BLACKBOARD 162
References 174
Index 179

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Integrated Series in Information Systems
• Reihe/Serie: Integrated Series in Information Systems
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 176 p. 46 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: business • Collaboration • Databases • Distributed Systems • E-Business • Enterprise • Exchange • Hsu • Information • Information Management • Integration • Levermore • Management • organization • Organizations
• ISBN-10: 0-387-34567-1 / 0387345671
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-34567-3 / 9780387345673