TY - GEN
T1 - Blockchain-enabled workflow management system for fine-grained resource sharing in E-commerce logistics
AU - Li, Ming
AU - Huang, G. Q.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This research is supported by the HKSAR ITC / LSCM R&D Center through the Innovation and Technology Support Program (Project Reference: ITP/079/16LP). Acknowledgments are also given to Zhejiang Provincial, Hangzhou Municipal and Lin’an City Governments for partial financial supports.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - E-commerce logistics is on the rise with the rapid development of logistics industry. Facing the fierce competition, the improvement of logistics service becomes necessity for service providers to gain competitiveness in the market. However, the heterogeneous requirements from different service demanders place great challenges for the E-commerce logistics service providers. The most puzzled one is to prevent fragmentation of logistics resources to serve different demanders (customers). This phenomenon of resource fragmentation is aggravated by the implementation of ogies or management requirements. It restricts the liquidity of logistics resource to serve different kinds of demanders. Hence, to break this limitation and achieve central coordination of logistics resources to satisfy heterogeneous requests from demanders becomes an imperative requirement for E-commerce logistics service provider. Therefore, this paper proposed a blockchain-enabled workflow management system (BCWMS) to centrally share heterogeneous logistics resources with different customers. Three key innovative technologies are involved to empower BCWMS. The first one is gateway technology introduced to realize the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) management of heterogeneous logistics resources. Secondly, to effectively and efficiently coordinate logistics resources, a workflow operating platform is designed to suit different business logic. Additionally, a resource blockchain is designed with the integration of blockchain technology with agent technology to guarantee the data reliability to provide accurate front-line resource execution data for different customers to conduct higher decision-makings.
AB - E-commerce logistics is on the rise with the rapid development of logistics industry. Facing the fierce competition, the improvement of logistics service becomes necessity for service providers to gain competitiveness in the market. However, the heterogeneous requirements from different service demanders place great challenges for the E-commerce logistics service providers. The most puzzled one is to prevent fragmentation of logistics resources to serve different demanders (customers). This phenomenon of resource fragmentation is aggravated by the implementation of ogies or management requirements. It restricts the liquidity of logistics resource to serve different kinds of demanders. Hence, to break this limitation and achieve central coordination of logistics resources to satisfy heterogeneous requests from demanders becomes an imperative requirement for E-commerce logistics service provider. Therefore, this paper proposed a blockchain-enabled workflow management system (BCWMS) to centrally share heterogeneous logistics resources with different customers. Three key innovative technologies are involved to empower BCWMS. The first one is gateway technology introduced to realize the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) management of heterogeneous logistics resources. Secondly, to effectively and efficiently coordinate logistics resources, a workflow operating platform is designed to suit different business logic. Additionally, a resource blockchain is designed with the integration of blockchain technology with agent technology to guarantee the data reliability to provide accurate front-line resource execution data for different customers to conduct higher decision-makings.
KW - Logistics resources sharing
KW - Resource blockchain
KW - Workflow management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072974299&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COASE.2019.8843250
DO - 10.1109/COASE.2019.8843250
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85072974299
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
SP - 751
EP - 755
BT - 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019
Y2 - 22 August 2019 through 26 August 2019
ER -