The view-based approach to dynamic inter-organizational workflow cooperation

  • Authors:

  • Issam Chebbi;Schahram Dustdar;Samir Tata

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, GET/INT (Institut National des Télécommunications), Evry, France;Institute of Information Systems, Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Argentinierstrasse, Wien, Austria;Department of Computer Science, GET/INT (Institut National des Télécommunications), Evry, France

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to inter-organizational workflow cooperation. Our goal is to provide support for organizations which are involved in a shared but not pre-modeled cooperative workflow across organizational boundaries. Our approach allows for partial visibility of workflows and their resources, thus providing powerful ways for inter-organizational workflow configuration. Varying degrees of visibility of workflows enable organizations to retain required levels of privacy and security of internal workflows. Our presented view concept provides a high degree of flexibility for participating organizations, since internal structures of collaborative workflows may be adapted without changes in the inter-organizational workflows. Furthermore, we provide workflow participants with the freedom to change their work-flows without changing their roles in the cooperation. This increases flexibility and is an important step to increase efficiency as well as reduction in costs for inter-organizational workflows. The presented approach is inspired by the Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). Accordingly, our approach consists of three steps: workflow advertisement, workflow interconnection, and workflow cooperation.