Dynamic Support Service Selection for Business Transactions in Electronic Service Markets
Michael A. Merz, Tuan Tu, Winfried Lamersdorf · 1996
Business transactions in an electronic service market are expected to appear spontaneously, anonymously, and with varying requirements of infrastructural support. This support generally covers security requirements such as authentication, privacy, and public key certification as well as payment protocols or the demand for notary services. The latter two aspects are considered in particular in this paper. Due to the variety and ever-changing setting of such services, a flexible integration into electronic commerce infrastructures is required. This paper proposes the embedding of support services into business transactions at run-time on the basis of a CORBA DII distribution platform. The architectural approach is described. 1 Introduction Taking pattern from the definition given by Schmid [Schm93], an electronic market (EM) is a medium that realises market co-ordination at any time and place and increases transparency for all subjects involved in market transactions. It should reduce t...