Report on the VLDB workshop on technologies for e-services (TES)
Fabio Casati, Umesh Dayal, Ming-Chien Shan · ACM SIGMOD Record · 2000
Aims and scopeThe Web is changing every aspect of our lives, but no area is undergoing as rapid and significant changes as the way businesses operate.Today, large and small companies are using the Web to communicate with their partners, to connect with their back-end systems, and to perform electronic commerce transactions.The next chapter of the Internet story is the evolution of today's e-business and e-commerce systems into "e-services", such as order procurement, on-line trading, customer relationship management, product promotion, or real-time car navigation and traffic information services.In order to make e-services available to customers, service providers need to address several issues, such as: • e-service description: which are the attributes of an e-service that should be made visible to customers or applications, and how they should be described.• e-service advertisement: how service providers can publish service description so that they can be discovered and accessed by customers and applications.