Modeling coordination in organizations and markets
Management Science
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Does information technology lead to smaller firms?
Management Science
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Class Library Support for Workflow Environments and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
Using Patterns to Design Rules in Workflows
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project
Information Systems - The 13th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*01)
Web Component: A Substrate for Web Service Reuse and Composition
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
View-Based Contracts in an E-Service Cross-Organizational Workflow Environment
TES '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services
Tackling the Challenges of Service Composition in E-Marketplaces
RIDE '02 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE'02)
Using Goals, Rules and Methods to Support Reasoning in Business Process Reengineering
International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting and Finance Management
Flexible coordination of service interaction patterns
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing
A methodology for e-service substitutability in a virtual district environment
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Steering dynamic collaborations between business processes
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Tracking over collaborative business processes
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Ensuring reliability in B2B services: Fault tolerant inter-organizational workflows
Information Systems Frontiers
Multi-Level Modeling of Web Service Compositions with Transactional Properties
Journal of Database Management
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Current e-service technology paradigms require the analysis and conceptual modeling of cooperative inter-organizational workflows. Cooperation among different organizations is based on contractual agreements that coordinate production activities among cooperating companies and establish mechanisms to control the fulfillment of production goals. Existing conceptual models of workflows do not provide constructs and related methodological guidelines to support the high-level conceptual modeling of coordination and control activities. This paper presents a model that helps specifying patterns of control and coordination among different cooperating actors and associating corresponding contractual rules. Patterns are organized along a continuum between hierarchical and market control and coordination paradigms. The model is explained based on an example showing the fundamental differences between hierarchical and market coordination and control. It is also shown how operating flows change as coordination and control shift from hierarchical to market patterns, due to varying contractual rules for cooperation in executing operating activities.