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Using interception to create domains in distributed systems
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Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Analysis Framework of Complex Service Performance for Electronic Commerce
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Introducing Contracting in Distributed Transactional Workflows
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Service deployment for virtual enterprises
ITVE '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Information technology for virtual enterprises
Cross-organizational workflow integration using contracts
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Formal modeling and electronic commerce
Exception Handling in Workflow Systems
Applied Intelligence
Workflow Automation: Overview and Research Issues
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Process-Based E-Service Composition for Modeling and Automating Zero Latency Supply Chains
Information Systems Frontiers
VEC: Gateways for Cross-Organizational Document Flow
IEEE MultiMedia
Exception Handling for Conflict Resolution in Cross-Organizational Workflows
Distributed and Parallel Databases
A Delegation Based Model for Distributed Software Process Management
EWSPT '01 Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
Trusted Mediation for E-service Provision in Electronic Marketplaces
WELCOM '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce
Managing inter-organisational workflows in eGovernment services
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
A case study of an inter-enterprise workflow-supported supply chain management system
Information and Management
Secure collaboration in mediator-free environments
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A web services-enabled marketplace architecture for negotiation process management
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
A simplified framework for stochastic workflow networks
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Middleware for supporting inter-organizational interactions
Future directions in distributed computing
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Today's Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) do not distinguish between an external view of a process that is visible outside the organisation and its internal details. Their interfaces are generally aimed at the internal user. This is a problem if one organisation (provider) wants to perform a process on behalf of another (requester) so that it can be initiated and accessed by the requester through an automated interface and, vice versa, that the results can be reported back.This issue gains importance as WfMS are in widespread use today and the trend to outsource non-core business leads to increased service activity between companies. Organisations do not want to make internal information generally available to business partners nor do they wish to restrict their ability to conduct business internally. If organisations enter a business relationship, they define in an agreement the circumstances in which the requester might initiate a process in the provider and exchange further information during the process's performance.This paper describes the Virtual Enterprise Co-ordinator (VEC), a concept for the setup and management of gateways to WfMS-enacted processes for outside organisations on the basis of simple agreements. Using VEC, organisations can provide external partners with a controlled way of accessing WfMS-enacted processes, while retaining the freedom to change the internal details of those processes.