Capturing and Using QoS Relationships to Improve Service Selection
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Dynamic business network process management in instant virtual enterprises
Computers in Industry
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Structured collaboration between distributed enterprises is described by an inter-organisational e-business process (e-process). An e-process typically comprises a core process hosted by one organization and many plug-in process components contracted from others. The assembly of an e-process would then involve non-trivial inter-organisational negotiation of formal component procurement contracts. Human decision-making is required to provide the inherently subjective judgements when choosing component suppliers and negotiating these contracts. We introduce an approach to such e-business process negotiation, using a generic iterative bargaining protocol and a multi-criteria decision-support method. An assessment of its feasibility is provided vis-à-vis a standard case study.