Sung-Chi
崇志 Chu朱
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Application for
The Innovation and Technology Fund Innovation and Technology Support Programme April, 2003 Project Summary |
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Digital Trade and Transportation Network (DTTN), a top priority initiative
of the HKSAR government, facilitates data and information sharing
among stakeholders in the trade and logistics industry. Air cargo
logistics is an integrated process requiring multiple agents. The
industry exhibits characteristics (e.g. vertical integration, cross-company
collaboration, time-definite delivery) that are well-suited to be
operated and managed in an e-business environment. The implementation
of DTTN will be a first step in moving the logistics industry towards
the online management of e-business activities. In this project, we
design and prototype such a logistics integrative e-platform. Since the webization of the Internet, websites have evolved from a simple browsable site of static information to that of cross-website integration of dynamic business processes. An integrative e-platform, allowing the management of e-business online, has to realize new dimensions in • connectivity – dynamic grouping of users and resources, • interactivity – concurrent interaction with individualized views, • interoperability – interoperable at data and application levels, and, • integrability – integrating actions and processes online. These dimensions enable new (transaction) management
functions such as platforming, conferencing, data interfacing, and
process-editing (e.g., integrating, and consolidating) to be performed.
The preliminary direction in enabling these new functions involves
the design of the following key components in the integrative e-platform:
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