From Centralized Workflow Specification to Distributed WorkflowExecution
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
eb XML: The New Global Standard
eb XML: The New Global Standard
The P2P Approach to Interorganizational Workflows
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Introducing Contracting in Distributed Transactional Workflows
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
WISE: Business to Business E-Commerce
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
Modeling contribution for virtual enterprise support
WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
A Bottom-Up Approach to Inter-Enterprise Business Processes
WETICE '04 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
EEE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'05) on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service
The view-based approach to dynamic inter-organizational workflow cooperation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Cooperation Policies for Inter-organizational Workflows
SAINT-W '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops
Bringing semantics to web services: the OWL-S approach
SWSWPC'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition
Task-activity based access control for process collaboration environments
Computers in Industry
Workflow abstraction for privacy preservation
WISE'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Web information systems engineering
Satisfaction and coherence of deadline constraints in inter-organizational workflows
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Information and Software Technology
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The work we present here is in line with a novel approach for inter-organizational workflow cooperation spanning several organizations without being managed by one physical organization. Our approach consists of three steps: workflow advertisement, workflow interconnection, and workflow cooperation. Hence, to implement a virtual organization it is important to provide a mechanism whereby organizations can advertise their workflow parts, other organizations can look at them and cooperate these with their own workflows. In this paper, we present CoopFlow, a workflow cooperation framework, supporting dynamic plugging and cooperation between heterogeneous workflow management systems (WfMS). Can be connected to CoopFlow any WfMS that is able to invoke external applications (programs, Web services, etc.) and that allows external applications to invoke any step within a workflow it manages. CoopFlow presents many advantages. First, it provides powerful ways for inter-organizational workflow cooperation and code reduction. In fact, partners can change their WfMS without changing the global proxy behaviour. Furthermore, it permits a dynamic interconnection and disconnection of participating organizations. In addition, it preserves the privacy and autonomy of process participants by reducing inter-visibility as tiny as the cooperation needs based on the view principle. Finally, our framework preserves established workflows : participants don’t modify their internal systems. Instead, they have just to implement a proxy to integrate CoopFlow.