Tracking over collaborative business processes

  • Authors:
  • Xiaohui Zhao;Chengfei Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Information Technology Research, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Centre for Information Technology Research, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Workflow monitoring is a routine function of a workflow manag-ement system for tracking the progress of running workflow instances. To keep participating organisations as autonomous entities in an inter-organisational business collaboration environment, however, it brings challenges in generating workflow tracking structures and manipulating instance correspondences between different participating organisations. Aiming to tackle these problems, this paper proposed a matrix based framework on the basis of our relative workflow model. This framework enables a participating organisation to derive tracking structures over its relative workflows and the involved relevant workflows of its partner organisations, and to perform workflow tracking with the generated tracking structures.