P2S: A Methodology to Enable Inter-organizational Process Design through Web Services

  • Authors:
  • Devis Bianchini;Cinzia Cappiello;Valeria Antonellis;Barbara Pernici

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Brescia,;Politecnico of Milan, Milan, (Italy);University of Brescia,;Politecnico of Milan, Milan, (Italy)

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

With the advent of Service Oriented Architecture organizations have experienced services as a platform-independent technology to develop and use simple internal applications or outsource activities by searching for external services, thus enabling inter-organizational interactions. In this scenario, services are units of work provided by service providers and offered to the other organizations involved in a collaborative business process. Collaboration should be facilitated by guaranteeing a homogeneous description of services at the right level of granularity. We propose a methodology to support the designer of a business process in the identification of services that compose the process itself. The methodology should allow collaborative partners to standardize process modelling through component services, enabling effective inter-organizational service discovery. The methodology is presented by means of a running example in a real case scenario.