Woongsup Kim

WSCPC: an architecture using semantic web services for collaborative product commerce

In collaborative product commerce (CPC), design activities need to be carried out concurrently with the identification of potential manufacturing partners based on the design requirements and manufacturing constraints. This paper presents a web service based CPC framework, WSCPC (web services for CPC). WSCPC integrates design process, business plan, and assembly operations using web services in which a task is regarded as a service that an organization can provide and is outsourced to other companies on the fly. In addition, we propose a service-oriented process model that enables a machine to locate actively a CPC service, to check service capabilities, and to execute collaborative service: into an optimized process workflow. Our service-oriented process model is a general drawing to realize functionalities, such as defining CPC service, enacting CPC service, and monitoring the executing status of CPC service. CPC, therefore, can utilize web services to not only discover diverse services of design, manufacturing and logistics, but configure collaborative process design, supporting service oriented CPC within WSCPC framework.

A framework for collaborative product commerce using Web services

This paper presents a novel Web-based service-oriented framework to support collaborative product commerce. The framework coordinates processes to design and manufacture a product in a loosely coupled environment using Web services. We have developed a service model using OWL. It provides facilities for companies to discover services that other companies provide. Choreography of Web services is achieved using the process grammar. Usage of process grammar helps to configure processes dynamically, facilitating collaboration among companies. The framework, therefore, provides a truly distributed architecture for management of service composition and interoperation, lending a unique functionality to the framework.

A service-oriented framework for collaborative product commerce

We propose a service-oriented process model and a Web service framework for collaborative product commerce (CPC). The framework, called MIDAS, integrates design process, business plan and assembly operations using the Web services. A CPC process involves a collaborative process, which consists of interdependent tasks. In a global environment, many tasks are outsourced to other companies. In MIDAS, a task is regarded as a service that an organization can provide. The service discovery of MIDAS, through UDDI, enables companies to find the services and processes other companies provide. MIDAS provides service composition to support a process which involves several services of other companies. MIDAS interface is written in XML and Web service description language (WSDL), which facilitates platform independent process management among heterogeneous and collaborative systems.

A web service support to collaborative process with semantic information

Web services are introduced to deliver methods and technologies to help organizations link their software. However, existing web service standards based on WSDL limits web services’ usefulness in collaborative process management. In this paper, we present a framework, WSCPC, that enables web service based collaborative process management in heterogeneous software environment. To facilitate web service based collaboration, we propose semantic service models and a web service extension that overcome limitations in current frameworks, and, hence, support complex level of communications needed for intensive collaboration in heterogeneous Virtual Enterprises environment. Through our semantic service models, organizational functionalities and capabilities are encapsulated and published as services. Collaborating partners can schedule, control, and monitor the relevant functionalities through WSCPC web services interactions model and web service extensions.

Collaboration in design and manufacturing process using Web services semantics

In this paper, we present a framework called Web service based collaborative product commerce (WSCPC), which facilitates design and manufacturing process integration and coordination. In WSCPC, the design and manufacturing process is structured as a network of tasks. Companies can outsource a task, and join a process by providing their service. We propose an ontology based semantics using OWL-S to represent design and manufacturing activities as services. Manufacturing companies are able to publish their capabilities and identify potential manufacturing partners at the same time. We also present service models to support collaboration, which is based on Web ontology. Web ontology enables collaborative partners to understand each others manufacturing decisions and behaviors, and hence help generate an optimal solution. We define interactions among companies during a process using a conversation model to support complex interactions necessary for flexible process management.

Automated outsourcing partnership management using semantic web services

In an era of fierce global competition and rapid technological changes, companies thrive by focusing mainly on what they can do best and by relying on partnerships to supplement their internal abilities. It is imperative, therefore, for companies to find an efficient method through which partnerships may be managed on demand. This paper presents a framework called Web Service-based Coordinated Process Collaboration (WSCPC) that facilitates collaborative design and manufacturing processes using Web services. In WSCPC, a process is structured as a network of activities, and each activity is represented as services that can be advertised and identified through Web semantics based on OWL-S. WSCPC also presents service models which are able to represent manufacturing behavior, facilitate the complex communication required for collaborative process management, and help companies devise an optimal solution.