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Enterprise Collaboration - On-Demand Information Exchange for Extended Enterprises
of: David M. Levermore, Cheng Hsu
Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN: 9780387345673 , 179 Pages
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Enterprise Collaboration - On-Demand Information Exchange for Extended Enterprises
Contents
7
Preface
9
Acknowledgments
12
Chapter 1 ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION
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1. THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION
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2. ON-DEMAND INFORMATION EXCHANGE: THE GOAL
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3. TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL: THE RESEARCH AND SOLUTION
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4. INTEGRATION OF A MARKET WITH THE METADATABASE: THE RESULTS
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4.1 The basic logic of the two-stage solution approach
28
Chapter 2 FOUNDATIONS
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1. OVERVIEW
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2. MARKET-BASED MECHANISMS FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION: MATCHING, AUCTION, AND AGENTS
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3. GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEMS
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4. EMERGING INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES: WEB SERVICES, P2P AND THE SEMANTIC WEB
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4.1 Web Services
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4.2 Peer-to-Peer Networks
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4.3 The Semantic Web
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4.4 XML
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5. METADATABASE AND ROPE
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5.1 Two Stage Entity Relationship Method (TSER)
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5.2 Metadatabase Management System (MDBMS)
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5.3 ROPE
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6. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWOSTAGE COLLABORATION MODEL WITH THE RELATED LITERATURE
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Chapter 3 A GENERAL MODEL
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1. OVERVIEW
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2. MARKET-STYLE SELF-SCHEDULING
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3. THE AGENT-BASED, PEER-TO-PEER PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE MODEL
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4. THE ENTERPRISE RESOURCES MARKET METHODS
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4.1 The Agent Model: Task Agent, Agent-Base, and Metadatabase
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4.2 The Blackboard: Match, Negotiation-Auction, and Assignment
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4.3 The Proxy Server: Peer-to-Peer Transaction and Systems Inter-operation
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4.4 Peer-to-Peer Negotiation: Virtual and Distributed Mini-Blackboards
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4.5 Implementation Model: Organizational Metrics and Data Standard
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4.6 Open Common Schema: a Metadatabase for Extensible Information Integration
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Chapter 4 THE CORE LOGIC OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL
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1. OVERVIEW
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2. THE NEW ELEMENTS OF GLOBAL QUERY
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3. QUERY MATCHING: IDENTIFYING COMPLEMENTARY QUERIES
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3.1 Step 1 - Identify Matching Data Items
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3.2 Step 2 - Combine Queries to Identify a Feasible Solution
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3.3 Item and Join Feasible Solutions
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3.4 Step 3 - Constraint Matching
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4. QUERY ALLOCATION: ASSIGN QUERIES TO WINNING EXPORT DATABASES
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5. QUERY EXECUTION: OBTAINING RESULTS FROM THE EXPORT DATABASE
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6. A SUMMARY OF THE QUERY MATCHING PROCESS
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7. THE ADVANTAGES OF THE NEW EXECUTION METHODS WHEN COMPARED WITH TRADITIONAL APPROACHES
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7.1 Database Autonomy
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7.2 Database Heterogeneity
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7.3 Integration Scalability and Open Architectures
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Chapter 5 THE ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL
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1. OVERVIEW
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2. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE BLACKBOARD
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2.1 The Conceptual Structure of the Query Database
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2.2 The Conceptual Structure of the Rulebase
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3. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE EXPORT DATABASE SHELL
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4. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE EXTENDED METADATABASE GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEM
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5. EXTENDED MQL: A QUERY LANGUAGE FOR THE TSCM
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Chapter 6 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL
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1. GLOBAL DATABASE QUERY IN A SUPPLYCHAIN
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1.1 The Global Query Process: A Working Example
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1.2 Query Matching and Allocation at the Blackboard
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1.3 Insert Query Operation on the Blackboard
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1.4 Query Execution at the Export Database
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2. THE PROTOTYPE OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL
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2.1 Specifications of the Prototype Environment
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2.2 Implementation of the Metadatabase and Blackboard
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2.3 Query Formulation using the exMGQS
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Chapter 7 THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL
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1. OVERVIEW
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2. A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE TSCM
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2.1 Adjusting the Logical Model to Improve TSCM Performance
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3. TSCM VS. FEDERATED DATABASE SYSTEMS: EXTENDING TRADITIONAL DATABASE INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY
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4. TSCM VS. MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS: THE TSCM AS A PLATFORM FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
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5. TSCM VS. SUPPLY-CHAIN INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURES: AN ARCHITECTURE FOR GLOBAL QUERY IN THE SUPPLY-CHAIN
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5.1 Interoperability of Distributed and Heterogeneous Suppliers in the Supply-Chain
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5.2 Customized Views in the Supply-Chain
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5.3 Traversal of the Supply-Chain
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6. TSCM VS. ERM: A GLOBAL QUERY APPROACH TO AGENT TASK MATCHING
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Chapter 8 WHERE DO WE STAND?
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1. A REVIEW OF THE RESULTS
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2. COMPARATIVE PROPERTIES
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3. OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUING WORK
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Appendix
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1. THE OPERATIONAL ELEMENTS OF THE TWOSTAGE COLLABORATION MODEL
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2 THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE METADATABASE AND THE BLACKBOARD
162
References
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Index
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