Name
Abstract | ||
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Interconnecting business processes across systems and organisations is considered to provide significant benefits, such as greater process transparency, higher degrees of integration, facilitation of communication, and consequently higher throughput in a given time interval. However, to achieve these benefits requires tackling constraints. In the context of this paper these are privacy-requirements of the involved workflows and their mutual dependencies. Workflow views are a promising conceptional approach to address the issue of privacy; however this approach requires addressing the issue of interdependencies between workflow view and adjacent private workflow. In this paper we focus on three aspects concerning the support for execution of cross-organisational workflows that have been modelled with a workflow view approach: (i) communication between the entities of a view-based workflow model, (ii) their impact on an extended workflow engine, and (iii) the design of a cross-organisational workflow architecture (CWA). We consider communication aspects in terms of state dependencies and control flow dependencies. We propose to tightly couple private workflow and workflow view with state dependencies, whilst to loosely couple workflow views with control flow dependencies. We introduce a Petri-Net-based state transition approach that binds states of private workflow tasks to their adjacent workflow view-task. On the basis of these communication aspects we develop a CWA for view-based cross-organisational workflow execution. Its concepts are valid for mediated and unmediated interactions and express no choice of a particular technology. The concepts are demonstrated by a scenario, run by two extended workflow management systems. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1016/j.datak.2004.03.008 | Data Knowl. Eng. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
couple workflow view,private workflow task,extended workflow management system,cross-organisational workflow architecture,extended workflow engine,cross-organisational workflows,adjacent workflow view-task,adjacent private workflow,view-based cross-organisational workflow execution,couple private workflow,workflow view,workflow view approach,workflow engine,control flow,business process,petri net,state transition,workflow management system | Data mining,Workflow Management Coalition,Workflow technology,Business process,Computer science,Windows Workflow Foundation,XPDL,Workflow engine,Workflow,Workflow management system,Database | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
51 | 1 | 0169-023X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
112 | 5.64 | 20 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Karsten A. Schulz | 1 | 117 | 6.52 |
| Maria E. Orlowska | 2 | 1703 | 274.02 |