The paper gives an overview of major scientific approaches to inter-enterprise relationships. A distinction is made between approaches that focus on vertical relationships between companies (Value and Supply Chain Management, Transaction Cost Theory and Agency Theory), and approaches that focus on the position of a company in its business and social-economic environment (Strategic Management, N...

Abstract: During the last few years message queuing and workflow systems have been established as major elements of the software stack. In practice, this middleware is often used to cope with aspects of data federation: Message queuing technology is exploited for application integration. Workflows extend the notion of stored procedures in a federated environment and provide transaction manageme...

As software agents get more sophisticated, it becomes difficult to understand and model such systems. In this paper, we contend that all developers bring to the task of development some implicit or explicit assumptions of the agent communication pattern. This issue is not readily addressed in current literature and represents a gap in knowledge. For this purpose a generic pattern of inter-agent...

This paper presents the graphical user interface InterBaseView for Inter-Base ECD + 92], a multidatabase system processing global applications written in the InterBase Parallel Language (IPL) BCC + 92] and accessing data from heterogeneous database and le systems. The primary design objective of In-terBaseView is to provide users with convenience and conndence in interacting with InterBase. Int...

This is a working paper for the XTraConServe (XTC) Project, which aims to develop concepts and support facilities for a Business Transaction Framework (BTF) that utilizes abstract transactional constructs (ATCs) to provide a generic foundation for support of complex transactional services in contract-driven inter-organizational business interactions that rely on dynamically composed web service...

Electric utilities face many uncertainties in their daily scheduling and inter-utility transaction operations. The effects of these uncertainties can propagate through the time horizon, significantly affecting the economics of schedules and transactions. With deregulation in the utility industry and increasing competition in the electricity market, these uncertainties should be properly managed...

Outsourcing has advanced to an important measure that is applied broadly in operations management. Nowadays, suppliers of manufacturing companies do not only provide direct material like raw material and operational supplements but offer components and advanced modules incurring many value-adding stages. Whereas in the past companies built up local supplier networks, they recently tend to searc...

Various types of periodic patterns in nucleotide sequences are known to be very abundant in a genomic DNA sequence, and to play important biological roles such as gene expression, genome structural stabilization, and recombination. We present a new method, named "STEPSTONE", to find a specific periodic pattern of repeat sequence, inter-spread repeat, in which the tandem repeats of the conserved...

Based on the density, increment and grid etc, shortcomings like the bad elasticity, weak handling ability of high-dimensional data, sensitive to time sequence of data, bad independence of parameters and weak handling ability of noise are usually existed in clustering algorithm when facing a large number of high-dimensional transaction data. Making experiments by sampling data samples of the 300...

The popularity of the e-commerce facilitates the tax evasion a lot, and the anti-tax evasion work in the e-commerce area becomes urgent. We introduced a union-bank online payment mode, which can solve many problems of existing mode such as main body status, standardization and inter-bank payment. Besides, it provides a platform for some value added services such as anti-tax evasion, anti-money ...