A Web services and process-view combined approach for process management of collaborative product development

A distributed Workflow Management System for Collaborative Product Development

“…In order to facilitate the heterogeneous workflow interoperability among partner enterprises, a Web services and process-view combined approach was proposed for the process management of CPD [7]. As the continued study, a Web services-oriented distributed WMS which adapts to the CEC architecture is built in this Section.…”

“…As the continued study, a Web services-oriented distributed WMS which adapts to the CEC architecture is built in this Section. Figure 2 describes the Web services-oriented distributed WMS, which consists of two sub-systems: one is the Timed Colored Petri Nets (TCPN) and Process-View (PV) based WMS called WFPN-PV system [7], and the other is an open source Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) engine, i.e. ActiveVOS designer [16].…”

“…In the process view approach, the private business process of an enterprise can be mapped to process-views to encapsulate sensitive business details and expose necessary business to partner enterprises according to cooperative requirements of business, and the process-views act as workflow interoperability interfaces to realize inter enterprises business collaboration while keeping autonomy of participating enterprises. In our previous study, the process-view and Petri nets combined approach was built, and applied for process management of CPD [6][7][8].…”

A Web services based distributed multidisciplinary design optimization framework to ship design

“…Web Services are made up of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), which is a services invocation protocol, Web Services Description Language (WSDL), which describes the operational information about services, and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), which defines a common means to publish available services. All the three components are based on open XMLbased standards [10]. Up to now, Web services technology has been widely adopted to construct distributed collaborative systems.…”

Collaborative Design System for Supporting Dynamic Virtual Enterprises

“…Byrne, Brandt and Port [3] definition of Virtual Enterprise (VE) points out three crucial aspects in virtual teamwork: 1) the importance of integrating different independent organizational structures, 2) the role of information management and 3) the concept of temporary, that is reconfigurable according to the different project tasks, product development stages and team members. VE problems can be faced by adopting a process view enabling the creation of inter-enterprises business collaboration while keeping autonomy of participating enterprises [4]. Supporting systems focus more on managing internal and external processes instead of investigate how the distributed knowledge can be formalized through the flow of activities and the mechanisms of collective problem solving.…”