Meta Data Based EDI for Small Enterprises

Wolfram Wöß

Meta Data Based EDI for Small Enterprises

Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing

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Abstract

Today in many cases electronic data interchange is limited to large scale industry connected to their own value added networks. Small-scale enterprises are not yet integrated in the communication flow, because actual EDI solutions are to complex, to inflexible or to expensive. The approach presented in this paper separates the knowledge about data structures and data formats from the process of the generation of destination files. This knowlegde is transformed into a meta data structure which is stored within a database system. If any changes of the data interchange specification are necessary, it is sufficient to update the corresponding meta data information. The implementation of the data interchange processor remains unchanged. This type of adaptation does not require a software specialist and therefore it meets an important requirement of small-scale enterprises. Data transmission is done by using Internet technology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) 1999
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-48309-0
Publication status	Published - Aug 1999

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Fields of science

102001 Artificial intelligence
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102010 Database systems
102014 Information design
102015 Information systems
102016 IT security
102028 Knowledge engineering
102019 Machine learning
102022 Software development
102025 Distributed systems
502007 E-commerce
505002 Data protection
506002 E-government
509018 Knowledge management
202007 Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
102033 Data mining
102035 Data science

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