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Erschienen in: Information Systems Frontiers 3/2014

01.07.2014

Everything-as-a-service platform for on-demand virtual enterprises

verfasst von: Gang Li, Mingchuan Wei

Erschienen in: Information Systems Frontiers | Ausgabe 3/2014

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Abstract

While constructing virtual enterprises, it is crucial to flexibly integrate heterogeneous business resources and processes of different business partners and make them collaborate dynamically. Keeping involved IT systems or components as autonomous and loose-coupled services, the “Everything as a Service” concept supports flexible integration of heterogeneous applications. We adopt this concept and analyze the challenges in virtual enterprise construction, then propose a service platform for on-demand virtual enterprises. The platform supports flexible integration of networked resources, and facilitates virtual enterprise construction with business process utility, trusted service composition and data service centric business collaborations. At the end of the paper, together with a case study, experimental evaluations in contexts of concurrent multi-users are presented, showing the effectiveness and performance of the platform.

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Metadaten
Titel
Everything-as-a-service platform for on-demand virtual enterprises
verfasst von
Gang Li
Mingchuan Wei
Publikationsdatum
01.07.2014
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Information Systems Frontiers / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 1387-3326
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9419
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-012-9351-3

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