http://www.ormfoundation.org/files/folders/orm_2009/tags/B2B/default.aspxTags: B2BenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://www.ormfoundation.org/files/folders/orm_2009/entry1926.aspxWed, 11 Nov 2009 10:43:53 GMT9d039735-a311-4a8d-9c49-a0bb2572af9e:1926Ken Evans0<p><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:18pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">ORM-Based Semantics of B2B Transactions</span></b></p><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:18pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">H.&nbsp;Balsters&nbsp;and&nbsp;F.&nbsp;van&nbsp;Blommestein</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span> : <span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands </span> <p><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">Abstract.</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"> After widespread implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning and Personal Information Management, the next wave in the application of ICT is headed towards business to business (B2B) communication. B2B has a number of specific aspects, one of them being negotiation. This aspect has been largely neglected by present implementations of standard EDI- or XML-messaging and by B2B webservice implementations. In this paper a precise model is given of the negotiation process. The requirements of a potential Buyer and the offer of a potential Seller are matched and, if the negotiation is successful, a contract is concluded. The negotiation process model is represented in ORM, extended with dynamic constraints. Our model may be implemented in the databases of the trading partners and in message- or service definitions.</span></p><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">LNCS 5872, p. 671 ff.</span> <p>&nbsp;</p>