An Ontological Model of an Information System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Inheritance of workflows: an approach to tackling problems related to change
Theoretical Computer Science
Cross-organizational workflow integration using contracts
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Formal modeling and electronic commerce
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
The P2P Approach to Interorganizational Workflows
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
XML-Based Schema Definition for Support of Interorganizational Workflow
Information Systems Research
B2B integration over the Internet with XML: RosettaNet successes and challenges
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems Interoperability Using ebXML
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Enabling business process interoperability using contract workflow models
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
HawkEye: a tool for collaborative business process modelling and verification
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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Collaboration and coordination between organizations are necessary in today's business environment, and are enabled by inter-organizational processes. Many approaches for the construction of such processes have been proposed in recent years. However, due to the lack of standard terminology it is hard to evaluate and select a solution that fits a specific business scenario. The paper proposes a conceptual model which depicts the nature of interaction between organizations through business processes under specific business requirements that emphasize the privacy and autonomy of the participating organizations. The model is generic, and relies on the generic process model (GPM) framework and on Bunge's ontology. Being generic and theory-based, we propose to use the model as a basis for comparing and evaluating design and implementation-level approaches for inter-organizational processes. We demonstrate the evaluation procedure by applying it to three existing approaches.