Interoperability Among Its Systems with Its-Ibus Framework
Luís A. Osório, M. Barata, Carlos Gonçalves, P. Araújo, Arnaldo J. Abrantes, Pedro Jorge, Gomes J. Sales, Gastão C. Jacquet, A. Amador · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
This paper presents and discusses the extended Via-Verde business model from the point of view of the underlying requirements for the virtual business processes. The extension of Via-Verde concept to other services beyond the motorway toll collection has increased the number of independent companies involved. The complex networked scenario resulted on a proposal of an intelligent transport system — interoperability bus (ITS-IBus) (Gomes et. al. 2003) (Osorio, et. al. 2003-a) aiming to promote a generalized interoperability among heterogeneous (multi-vendor) technological subsystems. The ITS-IBus initiative has been developing since then, a reference implementation of a peer-to-peer service based framework with pluggable feature and a set of common agreed interfaces for coupling different technological systems. An important objective is to increase the quality of the offered services by establishing a flexible execution and coordination framework for the collaborative distributed business processes.