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Analyzing data-flow implementations for distributed execution of inter-organizational processes

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Marco Franceschetti,

Johann EderAuthors Info & Claims

iiWAS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 502 - 510

https://doi.org/10.1145/3151759.3151775

Published: 04 December 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Inter-organizational business processes can be designed top-down following the public to private approach. First, a global process model is designed. In a second step, each activity is assigned to one of the business partners. Finally, processes (or views/stubs for refinement) are generated for each partner. The resulting inter-organizational process is executed in a fully distributed way by the set of communicating local processes. Existing approaches concentrate on the control-flow and ignore the data-flow or follow rather simple approaches for implementing the data-flow. However, automatically generating message-exchanges is a challenging task since numerous solutions with hugely varying advantages and disadvantages are possible. In this paper, we present criteria for assessing data-flow implementation and discuss baseline approaches that each optimize one of these criteria. All algorithms are implemented and evaluated for a variety of different process classes.

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Köpke JFranceschetti MEder J(2018)Optimizing data-flow implementations for inter-organizational processesDistributed and Parallel Databases10.1007/s10619-018-7251-3Online publication date: 10-Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-018-7251-3

Index Terms

Analyzing data-flow implementations for distributed execution of inter-organizational processes
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
    1. Business process management
      1. Cross-organizational business processes

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iiWAS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

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ISBN:9781450352994

DOI:10.1145/3151759

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Monash University, Australia
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Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
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Ivan Luiz Salvadori
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Ismail Khalil
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
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Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

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Franceschetti MEder J(2021)Determining Temporal Agreements in Cross-Organizational Business ProcessesInformation and Computation10.1016/j.ic.2021.104792(104792)Online publication date: Sep-2021
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2021.104792
Köpke JFranceschetti MEder J(2018)Optimizing data-flow implementations for inter-organizational processesDistributed and Parallel Databases10.1007/s10619-018-7251-3Online publication date: 10-Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-018-7251-3

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