Designing workflow views with flows for large-scale business-to-business information systems

Dickson K. W. Chiu, Zhe Shan, Patrick C. K. Hung, Qing Li

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    Abstract

    Workflow technology has recently been employed as a framework for implementing large-scale business-to-business (B2B) information systems over the Internet. This typically requires collaborative enactment of complex workflows across multiple organizations. To tackle the complex of these cross-organizational interactions, we propose a methodology to break down workflow requirements into five types of elementary flows: control, data, semantics, exception, and security flows. Then, we can determine the subset of each of five types of flows necessary for the interactions with each type of business partners. These five subsets, namely, flow views, constitute a workflow view, based on which interactions can be systematically designed and managed. We further illustrate how these flows can be implemented with various contemporary Web services standard technologies. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTechnologies for E-Services
    Subtitle of host publication5th International Workshop, TES 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
    EditorsMing-Chien Shan, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu
    Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
    PublisherSpringer 
    Pages107-121
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-31811-8
    ISBN (Print)978-3-540-25049-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    Event5th International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, TES 2004 - Toronto, Ont., Canada
    Duration: 29 Aug 200430 Aug 2004

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume3324
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference5th International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, TES 2004
    PlaceCanada
    CityToronto, Ont.
    Period29/08/0430/08/04

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