Design of a web services based eAI framework

This paper proposes a compact eAI framework for the integration of various types of applications deployed on different platforms on the Internet The applications are connected and invoked to achieve a business goal by the coordination of the workflow system in the framework For the construction of the framework, 5 sub-modules are elicited and the functions and roles of each module are defined. The elicited 5 sub-modules include business process modeling tool, eAI platform, business processes transform module, UDDI connection module, and workflow system. In the framework, intra and inter organizational applications can be integrated together across firewalls. A full-fledged eAI solution can be constructed by gradually adding supplementary functions within this framework.