Modeling of B2B mobile commerce processes

Wireless network technologies, e.g. Bluetooth, enable the direct data exchange between mobile devices. When used in business-to-business processes, a new form of inter-organizational application integration becomes possible, which occurs ad hoc in mobile contexts, contrary to the presently dominating approaches, e.g. such as EDI, which connects centralized servers.

Possible applications of this “ad hoc application integration” include fully digitized sales processes of goods, where all business documents are exchanged electronically at the point-of-sales via wireless data transmission technologies. This paper presents the technical aspects of ad hoc application integration and a notation for modeling and identifying ad hoc integration scenarios.