Software Confederations and Alliances

Global processes imply that the information systems have the architecture of virtual peer-to-peer networks of autonomous permanent services. It is typical for IS supporting e-government. We show that there are two variants of such networks: Confederations with quite stable relations (e.g. between the IS of the o ces) and alliances with temporal links (typical for e-commerce). Alliances must apply message format standards like SOAP whereas confederations can (and often should) use domain-oriented message formats.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Jaroslav Král, Michal Zemlicka
• Keywords: Autonomous Permanent Services, CAISE 2003, Message Formats, Virtual Peer-to-peer Networks