Workflow composition for e-procurement | |
| Author | Vo Duy Khoi |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CS-07-06 |
| Subject(s) | Industrial procurement Purchasing Electronic commerce |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CS-07-06 |
| Abstract | Online business has becomes ever more important for today's business. It relies on business knowledge and formal ontology to structure tasks for comprehensive and exchangeable machine understanding. Further more, online information is naturally distributed. However, organizing processes in online business is not easy. Therefore, a workflow needs to be built to solve the problem, especially in foreign investment when the environment is still strange to the investor. Workflow is a background of processes in an organization. It also organizes tasks to become structural as well as order between them. In a workflow, tasks can be executed serially, concurrently or conditionally. Applied to this thesis, a workflow composition system that focuses on tasks of procurement is built. The procurement model used for this system is Kraljic's model. In addition, market information and result of previous tasks are also inputs of next tasks. As a result, workflow will be different from the changing factors. The system also is recoverable to another workflow whenever goal of a task cannot be achieved by the "Executing and monitoring engine". This feature increases the success capability to purchase materials for business which is the target of this system. |
| Year | 2007 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. CS-07-06 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Science (CS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Phan Minh Dung; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Huynh Trung Luong;Honda, Kiyoshi; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | MOET, Vietnam;Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2007 |