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Towards Collaborative Cross-Organizational Modeling

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 99))

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Standardized business documents are a prerequisite for successful electronic information exchange in inter-organizational systems. These documents are typically defined through Standard Developing Organizations (SDOs) such as the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness (UN/CEFACT). In today’s highly dynamic environment with ever-changing market demands, SDOs are confronted with the need to constantly evolve their standardized business documents based on the needs of business partners utilizing these documents. However, the business document development process between SDOs and business partners is currently lacking efficient collaborative support. In this position paper, we present (i) a reference model supporting hierarchical, collaborative and cross-organizational business document modeling, (ii) a conflict resolution model to find a consolidated version of a new business document model as well as (iii) our vision of a Configurable Collaboration-Aware Online Model Repository.

The work of Research Studios Austria is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. Furthermore, this work has been carried out under the research grant Public Private Interoperability (No. 818639) of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

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Pichler, C., Wimmer, M., Wieland, K., Zapletal, M., Engel, R. (2012). Towards Collaborative Cross-Organizational Modeling. In: Daniel, F., Barkaoui, K., Dustdar, S. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28108-2_28

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