Underlying its business processes with flexible and plugged peer systems: The open ITS-Ibus approach

Abstract

The extension of the Via-Verde business model from motorways and bridges to car parking and gas stations involving different enterprises has motivated the proposal of an open integration bus to answer the new challenges for systems integration. It is discussed a service framework based on a peer to peer distributed architecture where peers offer specialized services contributing to the execution of virtual business processes. Those specialized services are executed in a system container with "plug and play" features and some of them assume the responsibility for the execution and coordination of the business processes. The paper discusses the underlying strategy that has motivated BRISA. as ITS end-user. to promote all open strategy for the ITS-IBus integration framework. It is also discussed a strategy based on a distributed service framework offering an added flexibility to virtual business process execution and coordination. © 2004 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.