Cross-Organizational Transaction Support for Virtual Enterprises

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

Norta

Kopp

et al. 2015

Abstract-Service outsourcing is a business paradigm in which an organization has a part of its business process performed by a service provider. Process views are pivotal to support this way of working. A process view shields secret or irrelevant details from a private business process, thus allowing an organization to reveal only public, relevant parts of its private business process to partner organizations. This paper introduces a specification framework to support service outsourcing using process views. To enable the construction of process views at various levels of detail, the framework defines several projection relations between process views and the underlying internal processes. To allow consumers and providers of process views to establish an outsourcing relation, the framework defines several matching relations between the respective views that are comprehensive and flexible for service outsourcing. A proof-of-concept prototype tool implements the framework, which is applied in a case study.

Section: Running Examplementioning

confidence: 99%

Service Outsourcing with Process Views

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

Norta

Kopp

et al. 2015

“…However, these works do not consider the use and construction of transactional process views. For instance, in the CrossFlow project [8,29], cross-organisational processes with transactional semantics are defined on the external level, which resembles with process views. But the relation between external level and internal level is not explicitly defined: external level models are created ad-hoc and there is no consistency relation between an internal level and an external level process in CrossFlow.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transactional Process Views

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011

Vonk

Grefen

2011

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Abstract. To enable effective interorganisational collaborations, process providers have to disclose relevant parts of their local business processes in public process views. A public process view has to be consistent with the underlying private process. Local business processes are typically supported by transactions, which ensure a robust and reliable execution. Process views currently do not support the specification of transactional properties. This paper introduces transactional process views and studies how they can be constructed from an internal business process that is annotated with a transactional specification. This way, we provide a well-structured approach to obtain robust and reliable process behaviour at the public external level, thus facilitating trustworthy, fine-grained collaboration between organisations. We consider various transactional models. The feasibility of the approach is shown by means of a case study.

“…In the CrossFlow project [14,33], which developed technology to support the execution of cross-organizational workflows in dynamic virtual enterprises, already a distinction was made between external and internal level process models. There, an external level process model was specified in a contract, but no support was provided for constructing this external process model, i.e., the CrossFlow approach relies on manual construction of external process views.…”

Section: Watertank Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing customized process views

Data & Knowledge Engineering

Grefen

2008

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129

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To enable effective cross-organizational collaborations, process providers have to offer external views on their internal processes to their partners. A process view hides details of an internal process that are secret to or irrelevant for the partners. This paper describes a formal two-step approach for constructing customized process views on structured process models. First, a non-customized process view is constructed from an internal structured process model by aggregating internal activities the provider wishes to hide. Second, a customized process view is constructed by hiding and omitting activities from the non-customized view that are not requested by the process consumer. The feasibility of the approach is shown by means of a case study.