Modeling e-Government processes with UMM

The United Nation’s Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)) is a standardization body known for its work on UN/EDIFACT and ebXML. One of its most recent developments is UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM). The UMM standard is used to model interorganizational business processes in the B2B domain. With the increasing presence of governmental institutions and their services on the internet, the frontier between B2B and B2G/G2G vanishes. Today one expects a governmental institution to react like any other business partner. Therefore also governments now face the interoperability and compatibility issues as regular businesses do. In order to allow two governmental institutions to collaborate, a methodology uniquely depicting the interinstitutional process from a global perspective is needed. In this paper we propose to use UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology in the eGovernment domain. UMM allows the definition of a global choreography which is then being ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: INFORMATICASI
• Authors: Philipp Liegl, Rainer Schuster, Marco Zapletal, Christian Huemer, Birgit Hofreiter, Robert Mosser
• Keywords: Business, Governmental Institutions, INFORMATICASI 2007, United Nation Center