Abstract: From a commercial viewpoint, the Internet is evolving from a collection of web sites for advertising products to an open and distributed environment for service provision. Electronic marketplaces represent the mediation contexts where service providers and service consumers can interact to carry out their business transactions. In electronic business relationships the issue of trust becomes central, and its enforcement is a fundamental value that electronic marketplaces can offer to their members. We focus on trusted contract enforcement in the context of an electronic marketplace infrastructure. In particular, it describes the model and the component for mediated service delivery developed by the applicant. The presented solution is based on the concept of externalisation for service consumer views of the business processes of service providers.

Abstract: The invention proposes the inclusion of process management capabilities 16 as an internal service to the applications run on an application server 28 and the components deployed into the application server 28.

Abstract: A method of testing compatibility of at least two electronic service interaction processes comprises:

Abstract: Computer apparatus for generating a process definition for execution by a process management system comprising a processor for generating a sequence of activities using information associated with messages exchanged between at least two business entities as part of a business process, wherein the sequence of activities correspond to the business process.

Abstract: A computing system for allowing data transfer comprising a first computer entity with an associated first filter and a second computer entity, the first filter being arranged to remove from a message to be transmitted from the first computer entity to the second computer entity data substantially the same to data incorporated in an associated message received from another computer entity.