NDLI: A cooperative framework for inter-organizational workflow system

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shung-Bin Yan Feng-Jian Wang
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan (Shung-Bin Yan; Feng-Jian Wang)
Abstract	Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are accepted worldwide due to their capability to model and control business processes. With WfMS, enterprises can improve work efficiency and react to the emergent situation quickly. However, most WfMSs adopt the centralized architecture in an organization so that they usually lack of a cooperative communication mechanism across different organizations. In this paper, we propose a cooperative framework for inter-organizational workflow systems. The framework consists of an inter-workflow meta-model, CA-PLAN (Cooperative Agentflow Process LANguage), and a prototype system based on Agentflow, a system developed in our laboratory. The cooperation mechanism between WfMSs in CA-PLAN is modeled as a Remote Call Process (RCP) paradigm. A process service is a mechanism that defines a process to participate in an inter-organizational process among different WfMSs and specifies the associated arguments in and out. A remote process is a proxy mechanism that refers to a process service on another WfMS. RCP provides the mechanism by which the process service and the remote process communicate and pass information back and forth and process monitor mechanism. The mechanism, also allowing dynamic changes and reconfiguration, can adapt dynamic and competitive business environment. Through RCP, the cooperative process across organizations becomes simple, faster, and flexible.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc
Starting Page	64
Ending Page	71
File Size	775678
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769520200
ISSN	07303157
DOI	10.1109/CMPSAC.2003.1245323
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-11-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Workflow management software Prototypes Laboratories Automation Application software Computer science Process control Communication system control Remote monitoring Internet
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Software

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