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Due to business process automation development, process interconnection becomes an important matter. Actually, if a wide spectrum of business process management systems (BPMS) exist (e.g. workflows, shared agendas, project managers, to do lists, etc.), they have been mainly developed to suit the internal needs of enterprises. Moreover, if we focus particularly on workflow management systems (WFMS), existing interconnection solutions are mostly static, proprietary, and depend on specific business process definition languages, specific WFMS platforms, private data exchange formats, etc. To improve generic process interconnection support within existing WFMS, related interconnection models deal with awareness and dataflow formalisation between two interleaving processes (i.e. shared dataspace models, message passingmec hanisms, event subscription/notification paradigms, remote object invocation, transfer protocol extension, . . . ), or with interleaving process control (i.e. transactional protocols, . . . ). In our opinion, the more promisingand the more generic approach for interconnecting processes is a service oriented approach. Our purpose is to conceive a model for enterprise processes interconnection through process service interaction. A process service can represent either the description of a task that an enterprise may wish to outsource (e.g. because of time lack, cost reducing, or skill needs) or a specific task that an entreprise is known to be skilled to accomplish. This task may be managed by an automatic, a semi-automatic, or a
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Baïna, K., Tata, S., Benali, K. (2002). A Model for Process Service Interaction. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36124-3_32
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