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Workflow technologies are widely used in industry and commerce to assist in the specification, execution and completion of well defined processes within organisations. As industrial and commercial relations have evolved, based on advances on information and communications technologies, cross-organisational workflow integration has become an important issue. Since organisations can have very different workflows, the creation of compatible workflows so that organisations can collaborate and/or carry out mutual transactions automatically in an integrated fashion can be a very complex and time consuming process. As a consequence, the development of technologies to support the creation and execution of compatible workflows is a most relevant issue. In the present article we introduce the JamSession coordination platform as a tool to implement cross-organisational workflow integration. JamSession is declarative and based on algebraic specification methods, and therefore workflow integration implemented using this platform can profit from formal behavioural analysis, based on which desired features and properties can be verified and/or obtained.

Abstract. Business organizations seldom work in isolation; effective interaction and cooperation between different organizations is essential for the success of any organization. In order to work together, organizations must have compatible workflows. This paper proposes a framework for automatically creating compatible workflows from high level requirements given by organizations that intend to work together. The framework uses intelligent agents [1] for the creation and execution of workflows. The proposed framework is different from existing systems as they focus on collaboration by modifying existing workflows. The proposed framework will enable organizations to avoid the time consuming task of creating a workflow and then ensuring that it is compatible with every organization it interacts with.

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