Managing cooperation in e-business systems

Ray, Pradeep; Lewis, Lundy

doi:10.1007/s10796-008-9095-2

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“…The first technological enabler is the workflow design, which provides coordination and flexibility in process. The workflow represents the sequence of steps, decisions, and the flow of work between the process participants (Ray and Lewis, 2009). We assume that the process model is encoded in BPMN, an open and standard language which in turn can be deployed and executed by a BPMS to directly control the workflow engines (Sharp 2012, Picard 2010).…”

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Fostering distributed business logic in Open Collaborative Networks: an integrated approach based on semantic and swarm coordination

et al. 2016

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Given the great opportunities provided by Open Collaborative Networks (OCNs), their success depends on the effective integration of composite business logic at all stages. However, a dilemma between cooperation and competition is often found in environments where the access to business knowledge can provide absolute advantages over the competition. Indeed, although it is apparent that business logic should be automated for an effective integration, chain participants at all segments are often highly protective of their own knowledge. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem by outlining a novel approach with a supporting architectural view. In our approach, business rules are modeled via semantic web and their execution is coordinated by a workflow model. Each company's rule can be kept as private, and the business rules can be combined together to achieve goals with defined interdependencies and responsibilities in the workflow. The use of a workflow model allows assembling business facts together while protecting data source. We propose a privacy-preserving perturbation technique which is based on 2 digital stigmergy. Stigmergy is a processing schema based on the principle of self-aggregation of marks produced by data. Stigmergy allows protecting data privacy, because only marks are involved in aggregation, in place of actual data values, without explicit data modeling. This paper discusses the proposed approach and examines its characteristics through actual scenarios.

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Section: Establishing Open Collaborative Network: a Technological Viewmentioning

confidence: 99%