From Data to Artefact: a Key Ingredient in Service Interoperation

支持电子商务环境中的服务互操作对于跨组织边界的业务交易自动化至关重要。如果没有适当的机制，可能会发生业务延误、失败和严重纠纷。该项目将通过提供一个人工框架来建模和管理业务协作，探索解决这一长期存在且具有挑战性的问题的新途径。鉴于该项目具有直接适用于现有企业系统的独特视角和方法，其成果极有可能引领新一代电子商务设计和管理，推进该学科的知识基础，并为澳大利亚服务社会和 IT 行业带来高额回报。

Supporting service interoperation in the e-Business environment is crucial in automating business transactions across organisation boundaries. If no proper mechanism is in place, business delays, failures, and serious disputes can occur. This project will explore new avenues to this long-standing and challenging problem by providing an artefact framework to model and manage business collaboration. Given this project's unique perspective and approaches that are directly applicable to existing enterprise systems, there is a strong potential for its results to lead to a new generation of e-Business design and management, advance the knowledge base of the discipline and yield high returns to the Australian service society and IT industry.