Electronic business is a major force shaping the digital world. Yet, despite of years of research and standardization efforts, many problems persist that prevent e-business from achieving its full potential. Problems arise from different data vocabularies, classification schemas, document names, structures, exchange formats and their varying roles in business processes. Non-standardized business terminology, lack of common acceptable and understandable processes (grammar), and lack of common dialog rules (protocols) create barriers to improving electronic business processes.

Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and Advanced Web Technologies contains an overview of new achievements in the field of e-business standards and protocols, offers in-depth analysis of and research on the development and deployment of cutting-edge applications, and provides insight into future trends. This book unites new research that promotes harmony and agreement in business processes and attempts to choreograph business protocols and orchestrate semantic alignment between their vocabularies and grammar. Additionally, this Handbook of Research discusses new approaches to improving standards and protocols, which include the use of intelligent agents and Semantic Web technology.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Competitive Advantage
Data Mashups
Enterprise interoperability
Integrated Enterprises
Interoperability of E-Business Documents
Quality of Electronic Services
Semantic Alignment of E-Business Standards
Semantic Graphs
Semantic Verification of Process Models
Semantic Web Technologies

Reviews & Statements

This is a handbook, a unique collection of practical experiences, expert opinion, and future visions of what has become known as e-Business. In it, one will find timely, challenging, and often conflicting views with as a common thread, the passion and expertise of the authors in what is a critically important subject. E-Business covers the exchange of data for the purpose of conducting business. This includes the collection, storage, and exchange of data for essentially all economic activity. It includes research and discovery as well as documenting the actual exchange of goods or services through to the development of the models that predict business trends. It is a vast subject that is undergoing rapid change. This handbook is designed to serve as a guide to ongoing research and to provide a reference to support researchers' work.

– Peter R. BensonFounder and Executive DirectorElectronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA)Project leader for ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries) and ISO 8000 (data quality)

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Ejub Kajan teaches at the State University of Novi Pazar and at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, Serbia. He holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from University of Niš, Serbia, and diploma degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Split, Croatia. His current research focuses on e-commerce in general, e-commerce architectures, semantic interoperability, computer networks, and open systems. He has authored over seventy papers, four research books, three chapters in edited books, and four textbooks. He has published in various outlets, including CACM, JGITM, IGI Global books, ACM SIGEcom Exchanges, International Review on Computers and Software, Automatika, etc. He is a Senior Member of the ACM, and a member of IEEE, IADIS, and ISOC. Dr. Kajan is involved in a series of international conferences as a program committee member including, but not limited to prestigious DEXA, WSKS, and IADIS conferences. He also serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) and Journal of Information, Information Technology and Organization (JIITO). In the past, he worked as a software engineer and general manager in the computer industry.

Frank-Dieter Dorloff studied Electronics and Industrial Engineering, and holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He had professorships in fields like “Production and Accounting,” “Production and Logistics” and actually teaches in the field of “Purchasing, Logistics and Information Management” and manages the Master course “Public Transport Management” (PTM). His mostly interdisciplinary aligned research focuses on concepts, methods, and solutions to enhance interoperability in general and in e-business. He was and is engaged in different European CEN workshops dealing with e-business standards and interoperability problems in Europe, especially in developing and harmonizing standards in e-government and e-purchasing. He and his team developed in cooperation with Fraunhofer research organization IAO and the “Association Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics” (AMMPLA/BME), the widely used German business standards “BMEcat” and “openTRANS,” as well as the ontology based “Amt@Direkt” solution, the predecessor of the knowledge network within the German public call center network 115. Prof. Dorloff is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of eCl@ss, member of the board of the Institute for Computer Science and Business-Information Systems at the University Duisburg-Essen, and member of the reviewer board of IBIS, International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems. Current research and consulting interests include more general interoperability concepts, harmonizing existing and upcoming e-business standards, as well as closing the gap between theory and practice in the field of interoperability in e-business. He is Managing Director of the IMIOS GmbH, which supports researchers and companies in solving interoperability problems.

Ivan Bedini is a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs Research in Ireland. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Versailles. Before Bell Labs he has been Research Engineer at Orange Labs in France, where he has held various research, standardization, and technical project management roles. Since 2000 he has contributed to several projects related to Workflow and BPM (Business Process Management) as developer, consultant, and technical project manager. In 2004 he specialized in e-business and became member of the UN/CEFACT Information Content Management Group and member of OASIS an ebXML Registry/Repository Committee, where he contributed to the development of the ebXML RegistryRepository standard specification. His current interests focus on knowledge engineering, information extraction, semantic technologies, e-business, and has actively contributed in research and innovation projects related to semantic data representation and applications.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Sven Abels, Ascora GMBH, Germany
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece
Flavio Bonfatti, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ruth Breu, Insbruck University, Austria
Yannis Charalabidis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Thomas DeVogele, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France
Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau, China
Wout Hofman, TNO, The Netherlands
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Veit Jahns, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Marc Wilhelm Küster, University of Applied Sciences Worms, Germany
Luigi Lancieri, University of Lille, France
In Lee, Western Illinois University, USA
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Quinghua Lu, UNSW and NICTA, Australia
Paul Oude Luttighuis, Novey, The Netherlands
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
M. Maria Martinez Carreras, University of Murcia, Spain
Carl Mattocks, CheckMe and OASIS, USA
Robert Meersmann, Vrije University Brussels, Belgium
Jan Mendling, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Inty Saez Mosquera, Central University “Marta Abreu” De las Villas, Cuba
Benjamin Nguyen, University of Versailles, France
Alexander Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sebastien Picant, University of Caen, France
Peter Reusch, University of Applied Sciences, Dortmund, Germany
Chantal Reynaud, Paris XI University and INRIA, France
Florian Rozenberg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Apitep Saekow, Stamford International University, Thailand
Eva Söderström, University of Skövde, Sweden
Yazhe Tang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Vladimir Tošic, NICTA, Australia
Marco Zapletal, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Stephan Zelewski, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany