Authors:
Xi Chen
and
Paul W. H. Chung
Affiliation:
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Business process, reconciliation, simulation, B2B e-commerce.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
With the increasing dynamic and changing business environment, bottom-up approaches for business process collaboration is currently receiving a great deal of attention in the research community. Bottom-up approaches are seen to be more flexible then top-down approaches. However, none of the available techniques for process collaboration are suitable for process reconciliation, which is a common problem when different organisations have to work together. In order to address the issue in a bottom-up way, a simulation-based technique for detecting differences between any two given processes is proposed. It is based on the extended definitions of process compatibility for collaboration and is the core of the process reconciliation mechanism.