A SERVICE INTERFACE DEFINITIONS CATALOGUE FOR VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES IN TOURISM

摘要

A Virtual Enterprise (VE) in the tourism sector can be defined as a temporary consortium of service provider organizations (e.g. traveling agencies, accommodation providers, etc.), that join their skills and resources in order to offer integrated value-added services. Value-added services are composed of basic services and/or other value-added services that are interconnected to create new higher-level tourism services. In order to support the required level of inter-operability among basic and value-added services offered by different enterprises, it is necessary to define standard semantic models regarding specific service interface definitions and data type structures. These standard service interface definitions can be made available through a common web-based catalogue. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a Service Interface Definitions Catalogue component aimed at the support of interoperability of value-added services in tourism VEs.