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This paper focuses on coordination engineering. We state that coordination engineering can be approached through a double point of view. On the one hand, coordination problems are recurrent and on the other hand, tested forms of coordination exist. We define a typology of coordination problems that can be solved by the enforcement of well known coordination forms. We highlight a correlation between our approach and the context-problem-solution formulation of patterns. We present a catalogue of coordination patterns that makes an inventory of a set of coordination problems, and a set of solutions that describe how these problems can be solved. After describing an example of coordination pattern, we finally present guidelines that use the catalogue in a framework of process coordination engineering.
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Etcheverry, P., Lopistéguy, P., Dagorret, P. (2001). Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering. In: Mayr, H.C., Lazansky, J., Quirchmayr, G., Vogel, P. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44759-8_17
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