Service and document based interoperability for European eCustoms solutions

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 17-37

  Vogel, Tobias ^a   Schmidt, Alexander ^b   Lemm, Alexander ^c   Österle, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

eCustoms; eGovernment; Interoperability; Service oriented architecture; Standards; Web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 60149095406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762008000200003     Document Type: Article

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