Web-services modeling for e-marketplace

Abstract

Web-services enabled e-marketplaces are based on human initiatives. Initiatives for buying or selling products between customers and merchants or initiatives for supplying products among merchants, in the supply chain. One serious challenge that we continue to face, in spite of growing number of recent contributions in the area of Web-services for e-commerce, is the lack of appropriate support for managing e-marketplace initiatives. As they are subjected to change and evolution, this paper deals with them using an approach for Web-services modeling using processes. The framework models and performs requests for purchasing or providing products, also complex business interactions among merchants involved in the supply chain. By so doing, the Web is transformed into a distributed computational network.