VEC: Gateways for Cross-Organizational Document Flow
IEEE MultiMedia
XML-enabled workflow management for e-services across heterogeneous platforms
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
CrossFlow: integrating workflow management and electronic commerce
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Merging workflows: a new perspective on connecting business processes
Decision Support Systems
Dynamic business network process management in instant virtual enterprises
Computers in Industry
Task-activity based access control for process collaboration environments
Computers in Industry
Specification and verification of harmonized business-process collaborations
Information Systems Frontiers
An intelligent petri nets model based on competitive neural network
CSCWD'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Efficient means of electronic interaction are an essential requirement for the integration of different companies' business processes along the value chain. Until recently, this interaction relied on expensive, complex and inflexible solutions, mostly based on EDI or some proprietary means. The high set-up costs and time associated with this type of infrastructure prohibits the dynamic forging of business partnerships, which is of utmost importance to the services industry. The CrossFlow architecture supports the dynamic establishment and enactment of a business relationship between two organizations, based on a contract that specifies this relationship. This is achieved by creating an electronic market where advertising and searching for compatible business partners takes place. This is further enhanced by automating the set-up of the contract enactment and supervision infrastructure, and by connecting them together to allow the business processes of the partners to cross their organizational boundaries.