The need to collaborate and establish partnerships to reach global business and markets is more common than ever amongst competitive companies, in particular, manufacturers. This need has required that businesses procure their supply needs on a global scale, thus forcing them to interact with a wide variety of potential suppliers coming from various countries. The advent of e-procurement has facilitated the exchange of procurement information amongst suppliers and their clients. However, due to the great variety of different sources of data models and semantics, businesses still face some difficulties exchanging vital information electronically and seamlessly. This situation is even worse with the advent of the evolution of the enterprise systems and applications, whose dynamics result in increasing the interoperability problem due to the continuous need for model adjustments and semantics harmonization. In order to contribute to a long term stable interoperable enterprise operating environment and facilitate the usage of existing and future e-procurement solutions, the authors propose the integration of traceability functionalities in information systems as a way to support such sustainability. Data, semantic, and structural mappings between partner enterprises should be modelled as tuples, and stored in a ‘Mediator Knowledge Base’ for communication support with reasoning capabilities, thus allowing to trace, monitor and support the stability maintenance of a system’s interoperable state. The mapping stored also contains an ATL code expression, which with the aid of model transformation tools, can be utilized to perform the mapping between two different enterprise data models, thus facilitating future automation.
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ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 28–31, 2011
Washington, DC, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5479-2
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Tuple-Based Morphisms for E-Procurement Solutions
Miguel Ferro de Beca,
Miguel Ferro de Beca
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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Joao Sarraipa,
Joao Sarraipa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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Carlos Agostinho,
Carlos Agostinho
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves
Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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Miguel Ferro de Beca
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Joao Sarraipa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Carlos Agostinho
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Paper No:
DETC2011-48997, pp. 1411-1417; 7 pages
Published Online:
June 12, 2012
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de Beca, MF, Sarraipa, J, Agostinho, C, & Jardim-Goncalves, R. "Tuple-Based Morphisms for E-Procurement Solutions." Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2: 31st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B. Washington, DC, USA. August 28–31, 2011. pp. 1411-1417. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2011-48997
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