Workflow View Based E-Contracts in a Cross-Organizational E-Services Environment

  • Authors:

  • Dickson K. W. Chiu;Kamalakar Karlapalem;Qing Li;Eleanna Kafeza

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. kwchiu@acm.org;International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500 019, India. kamal@iiit.net;Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. csqli@cityu.edu.hk;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. kafeza@cs.ust.hk

  • Venue:
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In an e-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Therefore, workflow inter-operability in such an environment is an important issue for enacting workflows. In this article, we introduce our approach of using workflow views as a fundamental support for E-service workflow inter-operability and for controlled visibility of (sub-)workflows by external parties. We discuss various aspects of a workflow view, and their semantics with example usage. Furthermore, we develop a contract model based on workflow views and demonstrate how management of e-contracts can be facilitated, with an Internet start-up E-service inter-organization workflow example.