Facilitating Cross-Border Trade by Simplifying and Aligning Trade Documents

This paper provides trade facilitation practitioners involved in trade facilitation reforms with an overview of the main issues and suggested steps associated with managing the simplification and alignment of trade documents.trade facilitation, cross-border trade, trade documents

A novel approach tu business process modeling based on business process mapping and UMM

Ce mémoire présente une nouvelle approche pour la modélisation des processus d'affaires. L'approche est basée sur la technique de la cartographie des processus d'affaires et UMM (UN/CEFACTModeling Methodology). La cartographie des processus d'affaires est utilisée pour modéliser les processus d'affaires à un haut niveau d'abstraction montrant des éléments tels que leurs entrées, leurs sorties, et leurs interactions. Les détails de ces processus d'affaires sont obtenus à un bas niveau d'abstraction et sont modélisés en utilisant UMM. UMM décrit les interactions et les échanges d'informations entre les partenaires d'affaires. Le modèle obtenu fournit une diversité d'informations à différents niveaux d'abstraction qui répondent à différents besoins de conception de processus, tels que les besoins d'affaires et les besoins fonctionnels. L'approche est appliquée à la modélisation d'un processus d'affaires complexe au gouvernement du Québec : la Gestion Intégrée des Documents (GID). Les résultats montrent que l'approche proposée identifie et documente les processus d'affaires existants tout en offrant une vue globale sur la structure et la dynamique du processus d'affaires

The Challenges of Inter-Organizational Business Process Design - A Research Agenda

Given the increasing importance of value chain collaboration, business processes need to be more closely aligned across organizational boundaries. Hence, business process modeling and design have to be enhanced and extended to cope with inter-organizational business relationships. Among the challenges that arise are interdependencies between internal and external processes, different process logic and terminology, missing clarification of responsibilities and confidentiality issues. This paper analyzes existing approaches to business process modeling, workflow management and B2B standardization with regard to the specific requirements concerning inter-organizational business process design. It extracts the relevant concepts addressing these requirements and draws up an agenda for further research

From Cross-Organizational Business Process to Public Services

Service-oriented architectures promise flexible process integration in heterogeneous environments, particularly in cross organizational contexts. Therefore, a systematic approach for deriving service definitions from cross-organizational business processes is required. The paper at hand presents a structured, model driven approach that allows for cross-organizational integration with service-oriented concepts and technologies based on a cross-organizational business process. The resulting method is specified by means of a metamodel and a procedure model. Taking into account existing approaches in the research field, the paper focuses on the activities for the service design specification and the subsequent implementation of the public services. Feasibility of the method is shown by applying it in a Business-to-Government (B2G) real-world scenario, namely the collaboration between a consigning company and customs authorities according to the new European harmonized customs procedures

Collaboration Modelling Framework for Courts Hearing Workflow Specification

Effectiveness of the legal sector is highly relying on the coordination of collaborative workflow activities to cope with highly dynamic and complex information exchanges among many different partners. In this work, we have proposed a set of legal transaction patterns that could facilitate legal collaboration modeling for courts hearing procedure with the objective of facilitating the specification of legal case hearing workflows. These transactions patterns were developed in align with UN/CEFACT’s recommendations for business collaboration modeling with promising results in modeling complex legal collaborations. The two main contributions of this work are collaboration modelling framework and application of the framework in courts hearing legal process specification. The application of collaboration modelling framework resulted possibility of streamlining and then to ensure coordination among workflow activities to achieve productivity and efficiency. Keywords: Legal Workflow, Legal Collaboration Modelling, Courts Hearing, Transaction Pattern

Enabling Semantic Interoperability in e-Government: A System-based Methodological Framework for XML Schema Management at National Level

Articulating semantic interoperability in e-Government remains in question as long as the international standardization efforts do not reach a consensus on how to semantically annotate and exchange data, but merely focus on the syntactic aspects by publishing sets of XML Schemas. As one-stop governmental services at national and cross-county level become an imperative, the need for standardized data definitions, codification of existing unstructured information and a framework for managing governmental data in a unified way emerges. Effectively applied to the Greek e-Government National Interoperability Framework, this paper proposes a methodology for designing semantically enriched XML Schemas with which homogenized governmental information complies, based on the UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS). A discussion around a prospective architecture for managing large sets of XML Schemas is also motivated in order to recognize the necessary components and the key issues that need to be tackled when designing a Governmental Schema Registry

Ontology-based standards development: Application of OntoStanD to ebXML business process specification schema

Business-to-Business (B2B) interoperations are an important part of today's global economy. Business process standards are developed to provide a common understanding of the information shared between trading partners. These standards, however, mainly capture the syntax of the transactions and not their semantics. This paper proposes the use of ontologies as the basis for standards development and presents an ontology for the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (ebBP) with the aim of empowering the capture and sharing of semantics embedded within B2B processes as well as enabling knowledge deduction and reasoning over the shared knowledge. The paper utilises the Ontology-based Standards Development methodology (OntoStanD) as a methodological approach for designing ontological models of standards. This research demonstrates how Semantic Web technologies can be utilised as a basis for standards development and representation in order to improve standards-based interoperability between trading partners