Systematic Interaction Management in a Workflow View Based Business-to-Business Process Engine

  • Authors:
  • Zhe Shan;Dickson K. W. Chiu;Qing Li

  • Affiliations:
  • City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon;Dickson Computer Systems, Kowloon;City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Workflow technology has recently been employed as a framework for implementing business-to-business (B2B) process enactment over the Internet. This typically requires collaborative enactment of workflows across multiple organizations. In this paper, we propose the use of workflow views as a fundamental support mechanism for B2B interactions. A workflow view is an external accessible subset of a private workflow. We present a methodology to show how B2B interactions can be systematically managed with the workflow view mechanism, by customizable orchestration of Web services mapping into internal existing workflows. We further present a deployment architecture for a B2B process engine and detail our implementation with contemporary Web services technologies. In addition, asynchronous events and exceptions as well as interaction monitoring can be facilitated in a unified framework.