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28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'95)   p. 189
Modelling inter-organizational trade using Documentary Petri Nets
R.W.H. Bons, EURIDIS, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Netherlands
R.M. Lee, EURIDIS, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Netherlands
R.W. Wagenaar, EURIDIS, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Netherlands
C.D. Wrigley, EURIDIS, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Abstract
Organizations engaging in electronic commerce typically are faced with defining detailed bilateral agreements between business partners. This implies that set-up costs for new electronic linkages can be quite high. There is a growing need to model and simulate this form of interorganizational interaction to lower these costs. The research presented contributes to this problem in two ways by: stipulating requirements on representation languages to be used for modelling trade procedures; and presenting a common graph-based representation language, Documentary Petri Nets, which satisfies these requirements. The practical implementation of Documentary Petri Net models is illustrated using a modelling environment, Case/Open-edi, a tool that may be used for the design and analysis of trade procedures. A simplified documentary credit procedure is used to give an example of such a Documentary Petri Net model. Finally, conclusions and directions for research are given.
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Index Terms- electronic trading; financial data processing; digital simulation; Petri nets; knowledge representation; high level languages; electronic data interchange; inter-organizational trade modelling; Documentary Petri Nets; electronic commerce; bilateral agreements; business partners; set-up costs; electronic linkages; interorganizational interaction; modelling environment; trade procedures; common graph-based representation language; Case/Open-edi; simplified documentary credit procedure Citation:  R.W.H. Bons, R.M. Lee, R.W. Wagenaar, C.D. Wrigley, "Modelling inter-organizational trade using Documentary Petri Nets," hicss, p. 189,  28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'95),  1995