Integrating Automatic Data Acquisition with Business Processes: Experiences with SAP's Auto-ID Infrastructure

Summary: Describes SAP’s Auto-ID infrastructure for integrating real-time RFID and sensor data into existing business processes. Distills lessons from customer pilots and identifies open research challenges in deploying smart-item automation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: ha4d510493846da67
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 7.2998268e-05
Overall Rank: 3,437 | 76.90%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50103-0

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christof Bornhövd (SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) Research Center Palo Alto, LLC)
2. Tao Lin (SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) Research Center Palo Alto, LLC)
3. Stephan Haller (SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) Research, CEC Karlsruhe)
4. Joachim Schaper (SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) Research Center Palo Alto, LLC)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bornhovd_vldb04,
        title = {{Integrating Automatic Data Acquisition with Business Processes: Experiences with SAP's Auto-ID Infrastructure}},
        author = {Bornhövd, Christof and Lin, Tao and Haller, Stephan and Schaper, Joachim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1182--1193},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50103-0},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50103-0},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,360	Adaptive Cleaning for RFID Data Streams	2006	VLDB	0.00010918075
2,040	Temporal Management of RFID Data	2005	VLDB	9.1430896e-05
6,472	A Deferred Cleansing Method for RFID Data Analytics	2006	VLDB	5.7740555e-05
12,844	Efficient Storage Scheme and Query Processing for Supply Chain Management using RFID	2008	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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