From generating process views over inter-organizational business processes to achieving their temporal consistency

摘要

Globalization pressure on organizations calls for new approaches to survive, grow, and compete. An approach is to allow inter-organizational business processes (IOBP) collaboration where each partner would expose its public know-how without putting its private know-how at-risk nor impeding this collaboration from happening. Private processes would be the result of running views over public processes. For a successful IOBP collaboration, constraints like temporal need to be satisfied. Organizations could have different time requirements. This paper presents an approach for generating views over collaborative IOBP along with satisfying the combined temporal constraints that would restrict these collaborative IOBP. The paper also details how the consistency of these constraints would be achieved. The approach is illustrated using an online shopping scenario and demonstrated through a system.