A Framework for Cross-Organizational Workflow Collaboration

摘要

In response to the increasing demands for business automation from the electronic commerce community, the concept of cross-organisational workflow collaboration is emerging. However, current workflow technology provides little support to process collaboration. It is expected that with better and more comprehensive supports that cover both build- time and run-time, cross-organisational workflow collaboration could be managed and conducted in a less expensive way, which would further facilitate the B2B e-commerce practices. This paper identifies the requirements that will facilitate B2B collaboration and describes an overall framework and the associated techniques