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Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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A Web Services based e-Business Application Integration Framework

웹 서비스 기반 e-비즈니스 응용 프로그램 통합 프레임워크

  • 이성독 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 한동수 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
  • Published : 2005.12.01
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Abstract

This paper proposes a compact eAI framework for the integration of various types of applications deployed on different platforms in the Internet. The applications are connected and invoked to achieve a business goal by the coordination of the workflow system in the framework. for the construction of the framework, five sub-modules are elicited and the functions and roles of each module are defined. The elicited five sub-modules include business process modeling tool, eAI platform, business processes transform module, UDDI connection module, and workflow system. In the framework, intra and inter organizational applications can be integrated together across firewalls. In this paper, the extension of a workflow system to implement the framework is also described in detail and the usefulness of the framework is ascertained by implementing an application process within the framework. A full-fledged eAI solution can be constructed by gradually adding supplementary functions within this framework.

본 논문은 인터넷에 연결된 여러 형태의 플랫폼 상에 장착되어 있는 다양한 응용 프로그램 통합을 지원하는 e-비즈니스 응용 프로그램 통합(eAI) 프레임워크를 제안한다. 연결된 응용 프로그램은 프레임워크를 구성하고 있는 워크플로우 시스템에 의해서 구동되고 조정되면서 특정 비즈니스 목적을 달성하게 된다. 프레임워크 구성을 위해서 5개의 하위 프레임워크 구성 모듈이 도출되었으며 도출된 각 모듈의 기능과 역할이 정의되었다. 도출된 5개의 하위 모듈은 비즈니스 프로세스 설계 툴, eAI 플랫폼, 비즈니스 프로세스 변환 모듈, UDDI 연결 모듈, 그리고 워크플로우 시스템을 포함한다. 제안된 프레임워크 환경에서 기업 내$\cdot$외부 응용 프로그램들은 방화벽에 구애되지 않고 손쉽게 통합될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 시스템의 구현을 위한 워크플로우 시스템의 확장에 대해서 비교적 자세하게 기술하였으며, 구현된 eAI 프레임워크를 사용한 응용 프로그램 구현을 통하여 제안된 프레임워크의 유용성을 확인하였다. 완전한 기능을 갖춘 eAI 솔루션은 이 프레임워크에 추가적인 기능을 점진적으로 추가함으로써 구현 가능하다.

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