International Journal of Science, Engineering and TechnologyAuthors: Dr. Bayomock Linwa André
Abstract: One of the main questions to qualify an action that occurs is the "Where" question. The "Where" helps to enhance an activity description by providing the location’ characteristics. The activity may be related to public, private, family or business affairs. The extended domains of the "Where" usability show its great importance in human life. The "Where" answer is a location, a place or an object position of a given action. The common word used to identify that information encapsulated in the "Where" answer is called an "Address". The address information is either classified geo-located or administrative. The geo-located classification of an address uses world longitude/latitude/altitude coordinates (or Cartesian coordinates). the geographic location' result precision varies either fine granularity less than 3 meters from target object position or a large granularity answer for example the location of an action may be identified at the North, West, East, Center or South of a country, region or city. The administrative address may use country subdivisions made by a government authorities or by the organization authorities to identify the organization units' location. In many IT (Information Technology) projects, the address module is generally re-written. The main reason is that the addressing of the organization subdivisions and their units’ hierarchical relationships should be represented and mapped to the country subdivisions made by government authorities. Another reason is that tightly coupled object to an address don’t keep a location quality about their address for a discovery purpose (address change, error in address writing, lack of responsibility of providing a quality address). Return costs (shipping fees, restocking fees, Reshipping fees, address correction fess, labor cost, customer dissatisfaction, loss of revenue) or lost of opportunities due to bad address is so high. For example, UPS and Fedex estimate address correction fees between $11$ and $84 per package (Jimmy Rodriguez, 2023). To coordinate the address production to consumption with coherence, accuracy, traceability of address change and allow address reuse, this paper proposes a coordination address protocol that handle administrative addresses and its associated data model. This protocol establishes the actors’ responsibilities of an address production as well as the entrances (inputs) and the exits (outputs).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16908949
