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Amoeba: a methodology for modeling and evolving cross-organizational business processes.
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Desai, Nirmit Singh, Munindar P. Chopra, Amit K. |
| Abstract | Business service engagements involve processes that extend across two or more autonomous organizations. Because of regulatory and competitive reasons, requirements for cross-organizational business processes often evolve in subtle ways. The changes may concern the business transactions supported by a process, the organizational structure of the parties participating in the process, or the contextual policies that apply to the process. Current business process modeling approaches handle such changes in an ad hoc manner, and lack a principled means for determining what needs to be changed and where. Cross-organizational settings exacerbate the shortcomings of traditional approaches because changes in one organization can potentially affect the workings of another. This paper describes Amoeba, a methodology for business processes that is based on business protocols. Protocols capture the business meaning of interactions among autonomous parties via commitments. Amoeba includes guidelines for (1) specifying cross-organizational processes using business protocols, and (2) handling the evolution of requirements via a novel application of protocol composition. This paper evaluates Amoeba using enhancements of a real-life business scenario of auto-insurance claim processing, and an aerospace case study. |
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| Subject Keyword | Novel Application Contextual Policy Competitive Reason Organizational Structure Business Meaning Evolving Cross-organizational Business Process Cross-organizational Process Cross-organizational Business Process Business Service Engagement Cross-organizational Setting Autonomous Party Auto-insurance Claim Processing Traditional Approach Current Business Process Aerospace Case Study Protocol Capture Protocol Composition Principled Mean Business Protocol Autonomous Organization Business Process Real-life Business Scenario Business Transaction Subtle Way Ad Hoc Manner |
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| Resource Type | Article |
