Distributed Coordination and Workflow on the World Wide Web
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on groupware and the World Wide Web
Graph theory and its applications
Graph theory and its applications
Supporting optimization of business-to-business e-commerce relationships
Decision Support Systems
Decentralised Workflows and Software Agents
BT Technology Journal
Processes Driving the Networked Economy
IEEE Concurrency
The P2P Approach to Interorganizational Workflows
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Bipartite graph approach to coordinating disparate workflows
Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal - Special issue on diagrammatics & Design
Virtual knowledge modelling for distributed teams: towards an interactive design approach
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce: Proceedings of TAMoCo 2009
Towards autonomic computing systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
What agents can do in workflow management systems
Artificial Intelligence Review
Cross-organisational workflow enactment via progressive linking by run-time agents
IEA/AIE'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
Interaction protocols for cross-organisational workflows
Knowledge-Based Systems
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Inter-organisational business processes are by no means rare. On the contrary, a business can only thrive if it cooperates with other businesses, like service providers, wholesalers, shipping companies, insurances, banks, etc. However, there is a major barrier here for automating such processes: the IT infrastructure of the trading partners, or more specifically their variety and independence. Owing to these problems, even if both organisations have automated support for their parts of the whole inter-organisational process, the activities responsible for cross-organisational messaging or document passing are often done manually by post or email. This paper concentrates on the problem of providing support for workflow interoperability, which would allow for linking business partners without the necessity of a major redesign of their workflows. A framework for interoperability between heterogeneous workflow systems is presented, which uses a layer of agents to enforce the correct execution of coordination dialogues between the business partners. Further, the framework is discussed and conclusions are given.