Ebxml-based Credit Assessment Service Platform

With the development of web technology, ebusiness is being leaded to a new phase, dynamic ebusiness phase,which makes ebusiness more interoperatability and more dynamic.But it make online cheat more dangerous too,which will become a big obstacle to ebusiness.How to provide a trustable environment for business has became very important in ebusiness researching area.The trustable ebusiness make an electronic commerce environment, in which the trade partner can control their online credit risk. The trustable ebusiness architecture mainly includes service register center, trust data provider, trust evaluation service provider, trust information consumer such trade partner in ebusiness, and the neutral organization for building service standard.The trust evaluation service platform plays an important role in trustable ebusiness. In this paper, we propose one trust evaluation platform based on EbXML platform. Based on EbXML platform, the trust evaluation makes trust evaluation service being integrated to enterprise information system easily by using dynamic ebusiness technology. The main research works on trust evaluation service platform include:1. Research on trust evaluation service platform's architecture2. Establish trust evaluation Meta-Model and expressing it in XML3. Establish ebXML-based trust evaluation process and trust-data service spec:fication.4. Implement trust evaluation business on workflow system.5. Integrate application platform supporting ebXML to workflow application. Our future works includes providing visualization tools to platform, and use Griddatabase and Gird Knowledge Service to make trust evaluation process more automated.This paper is supported by National High Technology Development 863 Program of China under Grant No 2001AA414320.