Hsu Enterprise Collaboration

On-Demand Information Exchange for Extended Enterprises
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-34567-3
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

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 "the fittest" 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hsu, Cheng

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;Preface;9
3;Acknowledgments;12
4;Chapter 1 ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION;13
4.1;1. THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION;13
4.2;2. ON-DEMAND INFORMATION EXCHANGE: THE GOAL;18
4.3;3. TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL: THE RESEARCH AND SOLUTION;21
4.4;4. INTEGRATION OF A MARKET WITH THE METADATABASE: THE RESULTS;26
4.4.1;4.1 The basic logic of the two-stage solution approach;28
5;Chapter 2 FOUNDATIONS;32
5.1;1. OVERVIEW;32
5.2;2. MARKET-BASED MECHANISMS FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION: MATCHING, AUCTION, AND AGENTS;33
5.3;3. GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEMS;39
5.4;4. EMERGING INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES: WEB SERVICES, P2P AND THE SEMANTIC WEB;44
5.4.1;4.1 Web Services;44
5.4.2;4.2 Peer-to-Peer Networks;44
5.4.3;4.3 The Semantic Web;45
5.4.4;4.4 XML;45
5.5;5. METADATABASE AND ROPE;46
5.5.1;5.1 Two Stage Entity Relationship Method (TSER);48
5.5.2;5.2 Metadatabase Management System (MDBMS);49
5.5.3;5.3 ROPE;49
5.6;6. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWOSTAGE COLLABORATION MODEL WITH THE RELATED LITERATURE;50
6;Chapter 3 A GENERAL MODEL;53
6.1;1. OVERVIEW;53
6.2;2. MARKET-STYLE SELF-SCHEDULING;54
6.3;3. THE AGENT-BASED, PEER-TO-PEER PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE MODEL;57
6.4;4. THE ENTERPRISE RESOURCES MARKET METHODS;59
6.4.1;4.1 The Agent Model: Task Agent, Agent-Base, and Metadatabase;59
6.4.2;4.2 The Blackboard: Match, Negotiation-Auction, and Assignment;61
6.4.3;4.3 The Proxy Server: Peer-to-Peer Transaction and Systems Inter-operation;62
6.4.4;4.4 Peer-to-Peer Negotiation: Virtual and Distributed Mini-Blackboards;64
6.4.5;4.5 Implementation Model: Organizational Metrics and Data Standard;66
6.4.6;4.6 Open Common Schema: a Metadatabase for Extensible Information Integration;67
7;Chapter 4 THE CORE LOGIC OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL;71
7.1;1. OVERVIEW;71
7.2;2. THE NEW ELEMENTS OF GLOBAL QUERY;72
7.3;3. QUERY MATCHING: IDENTIFYING COMPLEMENTARY QUERIES;74
7.3.1;3.1 Step 1 - Identify Matching Data Items;74
7.3.2;3.2 Step 2 - Combine Queries to Identify a Feasible Solution;76
7.3.3;3.3 Item and Join Feasible Solutions;77
7.3.4;3.4 Step 3 - Constraint Matching;83
7.4;4. QUERY ALLOCATION: ASSIGN QUERIES TO WINNING EXPORT DATABASES;87
7.5;5. QUERY EXECUTION: OBTAINING RESULTS FROM THE EXPORT DATABASE;89
7.6;6. A SUMMARY OF THE QUERY MATCHING PROCESS;89
7.7;7. THE ADVANTAGES OF THE NEW EXECUTION METHODS WHEN COMPARED WITH TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;91
7.7.1;7.1 Database Autonomy;91
7.7.2;7.2 Database Heterogeneity;92
7.7.3;7.3 Integration Scalability and Open Architectures;93
8;Chapter 5 THE ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL;94
8.1;1. OVERVIEW;94
8.2;2. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE BLACKBOARD;95
8.2.1;2.1 The Conceptual Structure of the Query Database;98
8.2.2;2.2 The Conceptual Structure of the Rulebase;99
8.3;3. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE EXPORT DATABASE SHELL;100
8.4;4. THE PROTOTYPE STRUCTURE OF THE EXTENDED METADATABASE GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEM;103
8.5;5. EXTENDED MQL: A QUERY LANGUAGE FOR THE TSCM;104
9;Chapter 6 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL;110
9.1;1. GLOBAL DATABASE QUERY IN A SUPPLYCHAIN;110
9.1.1;1.1 The Global Query Process: A Working Example;111
9.1.2;1.2 Query Matching and Allocation at the Blackboard;114
9.1.3;1.3 Insert Query Operation on the Blackboard;117
9.1.4;1.4 Query Execution at the Export Database;119
9.2;2. THE PROTOTYPE OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL;120
9.2.1;2.1 Specifications of the Prototype Environment;120
9.2.2;2.2 Implementation of the Metadatabase and Blackboard;121
9.2.3;2.3 Query Formulation using the exMGQS;122
10;Chapter 7 THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE TWO-STAGE COLLABORATION MODEL;125
10.1;1. OVERVIEW;125
10.2;2. A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE TSCM;126
10.2.1;2.1 Adjusting the Logical Model to Improve TSCM Performance;134
10.3;3. TSCM VS. FEDERATED DATABASE SYSTEMS: EXTENDING TRADITIONAL DATABASE INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;135
10.4;4. TSCM VS. MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS: THE TSCM AS A PLATFORM FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS;138
10.5;5. TSCM VS. SUPPLY-CHAIN INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURES: AN ARCHITECTURE FOR GLOBAL QUERY IN THE SUPPLY-CHAIN;141
10.5.1;5.1 Interoperability of Distributed and Heterogeneous Suppliers in the Supply-Chain;142
10.5.2;5.2 Customized Views in the Supply-Chain;143
10.5.3;5.3 Traversal of the Supply-Chain;145
10.6;6. TSCM VS. ERM: A GLOBAL QUERY APPROACH TO AGENT TASK MATCHING;146
11;Chapter 8 WHERE DO WE STAND?;148
11.1;1. A REVIEW OF THE RESULTS;148
11.2;2. COMPARATIVE PROPERTIES;151
11.3;3. OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUING WORK;152
12;Appendix;155
12.1;1. THE OPERATIONAL ELEMENTS OF THE TWOSTAGE COLLABORATION MODEL;156
12.2;2 THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE METADATABASE AND THE BLACKBOARD;162
13;References;174
14;Index;179

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