Authors:
A. Aldeeb
;
K. Crockett
and
M. J. Stanton
Affiliation:
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Inter-organizational workflow management system, Intra-organizational workflow management system, Peer-to-Peer, Virtual organization, Exception handling, workflow adaptability, Case-based reasoning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Case Studies
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Current inter-organizational cooperation technologies and approaches do not adequately support
cross- organizational workflow. These approaches concentrate on automating the public workflow in isolation from the internal workflow management systems inside the cooperating organization. Integrating Peer-to-peer (P2P) and workflow technology enables virtual enterprises to dynamically form and dismantle partnerships between organizations workflow management systems. In addition, P2P workflow based systems support various forms of workflow interoperability e. g capacity sharing, chained execution, subcontracting, case transfer, loosely coupled and public to private approach. This paper describes a novel peer-to-peer inter-organizational workflow management framework (P2P inter-org WFMS), which includes workflow advertisement, workflow interconnection, and workflow cooperation. Each organization acts as a workflow peer (WFP) in a virtual enterprise. Sun Microsystems’s JXTA P2P networking
environment is used for prototype implementation. XPDL (XML Process Definition Languages) is used for process definition as it offers portability between different Process Design tools. The internal WFMS in each organization is being implemented using TIBCO Business Studio ™.
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