What EDI needs is a good semantics, that is, a workable formal theory of what EDI messages mean. As is widely recognized, the point applies to electronic commerce and to communications by artificial agents in general. Some progress has been made in this direction, but very much work remains to be done. In this paper we introduce and discuss the spanning hypothesis for agent (EDI, electronic com...

Because of the disconnection between the Logistics services trading platform and the EDI customs clearance system, the logistics clearance data needed to be gathered manually, and the efficiency of customs clearance was rather low. In view of this problem, a logistics data exchange method based on the XML technology was proposed, which firstly achieved the batch extraction and conversion of the...

Recently, the magnitude of electronic data interchange (EDI) document processing for the handling of port logistics is abruptly being increased. The existing system processes EDI documents in a script mode, but due to a complicated script preparation procedure and low document processing efficiency, it cannot meet the demand as the usage flow of documents increases. In this paper, an EDI electr...

As interest into the nature and value of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) within organizations continues to grow, it becomes increasingly desirable to establish a tactical linkage between the strategic value of EDI and observed operational benefits. This article provides such a tactical linkage by presenting an approach to EDI measurement consisting of four facets: volume, diversity, breadth, ...

EDI-Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the electronic exchange of routine business transactions. Extranet – an extranet is a private network that uses the Internet protocol and the public telecommunication system to share securely part of a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers, or other businesses. ICT – information and communication technology Int...

Organizations exchange data electronically to perform business transactions using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). In order to gain insights on such transactions, approaches for inter-organizational business process mining based on the observation of exchanged EDI messages have been recently proposed. In recent approaches, however, only meta-information about the exchanged messages, such as m...

Standards in general promise more efficiency and effectiveness in doing (electronic) business. Lowering the costs of collaboration, achieving these gains depends of the development and adoption of the standard in its business environment. Several studies report on research on electronic data interchange (EDI) and its added value to interorganisational collaboration. EDI messages have the purpos...

Electronic commerce presents many opportunities for public and private sectors to capitalise on technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange. EDI allows improvements in business performance and efficiency, in building of new markets and expanding of old ones. However, a significant barrier to the organisational adoption and diffusion of EDI, is the lack of knowledge in the need for adequate...

The purpose of this paper is to build a better understanding of the operation of a Letter of Credit (L/C) in the transportation of goods. Related and of growing importance are some recent developments in the areas of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and the explosion of globally internetworked computers on the Internet. The commercial viability of Internet is explored along with security and o...