ebXML-based e-logistics enactment service architecture and system

In this paper, we develop a business process management system that is targeting on e-Logistics enactment services. We call it Viola e-Logistics system that is a partial result coming from the on-going project that has been done by a joint team of ETRl (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) and CTRL (Collaboration Technology Research Lab at Kyonggi University), in South Korea. The BPMS's engine and its subsidiary tools are described in this paper. Especially, the engine's architecture and features focus on supporting interoperations between parties (companies) that are associated with a logistics process represented by the ebXML standard. In terms of the modeling aspect, the Viola e- Logistics modeling system, which is a typical one of the subsidiary tools, supports modeling the multiparty collaborative processes including CPP (Collaborative Partner Profiles) and CPA (Collaborative Partner agreements). Based on the original specifications of ebXML, it is used to represent BZB collaborative transactions between buyer and seller. Unfortunately, it should be bard to directly apply it to the e- Logistics domain without any further modification, because the sbXML standard describes a series of very fundamental specifications and supports not the process-centric collaborative transactions but the dual-party (buyer and seller) collaborative transactions. Therefore, we need to extensively apply the ebXML specifications to model e-Logistics processes by interconnecting a series of the dual-party sets. Conclusively, the main contribution of this paper is on that we do apply the ebXML standard to modeling and enacting e-Logistics processes.