Service deployment for virtual enterprises

Abstract

The ubiquity of the WWW offers far reaching opportunities for emerging Web-based applications based on service invocations. Although network-centric technologies will make the diverse services easily accessible via the Web, the development of e-commerce services (e-services) and networked services which share existing e-services is still an ad-hoc, very demanding, and time consuming task. We propose an integrated framework for e-services spanning legacy systems and modern enterprise business processes so that business transactions can be automated across the networked enterprises. Networked enterprise applications can thus be developed by fusing together services provided by individual enterprises.