Abstract
Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through
information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces.
For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore
actually involves at least three different business collaborations
-- between the customer and the online catalog to select a book;
between the bookstore and a credit card authorization service to
verify and charge the customer's account; and between the bookstore
and the delivery service with instructions for picking up and delivering
the book to the customer. Document engineering is needed to analyze,
design, and implement these Internet information exchanges. This
book is an introduction to the emerging field of document engineering.<br
/> <br /> The authors, both leaders in the development of document
engineering and other e-commerce initiatives, analyze document exchanges
from a variety of perspectives. Taking a qualitative view, they
look at patterns of document exchanges as components of business
models; looking at documents in more detail, they describe techniques
for analyzing individual transaction patterns and the role they
play in the overall business process. They describe techniques for
analyzing, designing, and encoding document models, including XML,
and discuss the techniques and architectures that make XML a unifying
technology for the next generation of e-business applications. Finally,
they go beyond document models to consider management and strategic
issues -- the business model, or the vision, that the information
exchanged in these documents serves.
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