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Business Network Management (BNM) provides companies with techniques for managing their trading partner networks by making technical integration, business and social aspects visible within a network view and sets them into context to each other. Therefore, it computationally links data into business and (technical) integration networks as well as computes semantic correlation between entities of both perspectives. The linked real-world data is then captured in a network-centric variant of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which we call Network Integration Model (NIM). In this paper, we propose a novel concept, which features access to the complex inter-connected business and technical perspectives in NIM in a standard RESTful architecture style, called Business Graph API (BGAPI). As foundation we use a powerful Resource Graph (RG) definition, which is directly computed from the underlying NIM, and allows simple, uniform, but expressive queries and traversal on the linked data. We present a novel approach on applying state of the art RESTful Web-Services to our domain and report on our experiences with it.
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Ritter, D., Herrmann, C. (2012). A Graph API for Complex Business Network Query and Traversal. In: Dua, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Thulasiraman, P., Straccia, U., Shepherd, M., Stein, B. (eds) Information Systems, Technology and Management. ICISTM 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_5
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