An organisational perspective on collaborative business processes

  • Authors:

  • Xiaohui Zhao;Chengfei Liu;Yun Yang

  • Affiliations:

  • CICEC – Centre for Internet Computing and E-Commerce, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;CICEC – Centre for Internet Computing and E-Commerce, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;CICEC – Centre for Internet Computing and E-Commerce, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Venue:
  • BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Business collaboration is about coordinating the flow of information among organisations and linking their business processes. It brings great challenge to keep participating organisations as autonomous entities in integrating business processes of these organisations seamlessly. To address this issue, we develop a new perspective on business collaborations with a novel concept called relative workflow, which defines what a participating organisation can perceive in collaboration. By incorporating a visibility control mechanism, relative workflows allow each organisation to define its own collaboration structure and behaviours. In this paper, we present a formal definition of relative workflows and related algorithms for generating relative workflows, along with a discussion on how to perform tracking over relative workflows.