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Escalating economic and societal demands of today, along with the continuous advancements in ICT, push enterprises and organisations to move towards networked paradigms and leverage electronic transactions in the everyday practice. Although technical solutions providing for the necessary organisational, semantic, and technical interoperability means to enable e-transactions have been rigorously justified during the last years, their adoption and application into the everyday business practice by enterprises and organisations still remains limited. Specific characteristics of the existing solutions, such as inflexible workflows, predefined formats and content for the exchanged documents, hard-coded business and legal rules, use of proprietary technologies and inability to be readily deployed and validated for their efficiency, act as the main inhibitors for any potential users. The present work discusses the needed characteristics of centralized and decentralized architectures for e-transactions among business partners, identifies the weak points of every pattern and proposes a hybrid architectural approach that brings together the best features from both paradigms. Furthermore, specific insights, methodologies and underlying technologies are proposed with an objective to support the effectiveness of the architecture and its components in integrating processes, data and services achieving fully electronic transactions among businesses and governments in many European countries..
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Gionis, G., Askounis, D., Koussouris, S., Lampathaki, F. (2008). Meeting the Interoperability Challenges of eTransactions among Heterogeneous Business Partners: The Advantages of Hybrid Architectural Approaches for the Integrating Middleware. In: Mertins, K., Ruggaber, R., Popplewell, K., Xu, X. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability III. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-221-0_50
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