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Dynamic inter-organizational business process management (DIBPM) combines service-oriented busi- ness integration (SOBI) and worko w management as a promising approach for supporting commercial business- to-business (B2B) activities over web-based infrastructures. SOBI applies concepts from the eld of service- oriented computing in the domain of dy...
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... evaluation is achieved by introducing the procedure of collapsing. Figure 5 shows at the top the service consumer's and provider's conceptual-level processes. A consumer sphere is contained in the in-house process of the service consumer. ...
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... Plusieurs formes de coopérations interentreprises existent (entreprise virtuelle, réseau d'entreprises, ...) [Zarour, 2004], [Bouzguenda, 2005], [Norta and Grefen, 2006], [Grefen et al., 2009]. Ces formes d'organisation ont un impact important sur les systèmes d'information. ...
It is often difficult for a single Information System (IS) to accomplish complex requirements. One solution is to combine many different ISs and make them collaborate to realize this task. Information systems composition is an active ongoing area of research in the field of information systems. The result of IS composition produces one type of a so called Cooperative Information System (CIS). Its development requires a particular attention to process all emerging problems, especially the crosscutting concerns that pose difficulties to understand, maintain and reuse such cooperative systems. Moreover, the aspect paradigm is presented as a promising avenue for reusability. Thus, we argue that it is interesting to propose an aspect approach to build a new system in order to accomplish complex tasks based on the reuse of system’s artefacts previously developed. According to our best of knowledge few works have tackled this question. In this thesis, we present an aspect-oriented approach called AspeCiS, applied from the requirements engineering phase until the design phase, in order to develop a CIS from existing ISs by using their artifacts such as requirements, architectures and design. Therefore, this approach is opposed to conventional development ones in which the construction of a new system starts from nothing and needs reinventing everything every time.
... In the CrossWork [1] project, the objective is pursued to develop automated mechanisms for allowing a dynamic workflow formation and enactment, enabling a collaboration and synergies between different organizations. CrossWork uses eSourcing42434445 as an integral concept that focuses on matching on an external level conceptually formulated service-consuming and service-providing processes. In Section 3, further details are explained. ...
... Thus, in eSourcing those processes are matched by analyzing the respective control-flow. Furthermore , eSourcing is a foundation for the automatic formulation and enactment of electronic contracts [45] . To manage the inherent business, conceptual, and technological complexity of eSourcing, the employment of a three-levels framework [28] is considered a suitable model. ...
The question of how a service consumer and a service provider should collaborate with each other in a business-to-business (B2B) setting is an ongoing research issue. The concept of electronic eSourcing (eSourcing) has been pro-posed as an integral concept for the EU research project CrossWork. The prop-erties of eSourcing have been explored, however, the question arises how a ser-vice consumer and a service provider need to interact with each other during setup time for establishing an eSourcing configuration. The concept of eSourcing offers more flexibility than other approaches in that respect. Hence, this paper investigates the characteristics of interaction between a service consumer and service provider during setup time for establishing an enactable B2B collabo-ration. These characteristics are employed to discover interaction patterns in a dop-down way that are specified together with interaction scenarios for the con-cept of eSourcing. These scenarios constitute the basis for evaluating the design of an eSourcing Reference Architecture (eSRA) that serves as a foundation for the design of e-collaboration setup systems.
... To tackle the mentioned complex issues of B2B supply-chain collaboration, the eSourcing [11,[34][35][36][37][38]40] concept was developed during the CrossWork project. eSourcing is a framework for harmonizing inter-organizationally business processes of service consuming and service providing organizations into a B2B supply-chain collaboration. ...
... In the CrossWork [35] project, the objective has been pursued to develop automated mechanisms for allowing a dynamic workflow formation and enactment, enabling a collaboration and production synergies between different organizations. CrossWork uses eSourcing [11,[34][35][36][37][38]40] as an integral concept that focuses on matching on an external level conceptually formulated service-consuming and service-providing processes. ...
... The eSourcing-based [11,[34][35][36][37][38]40] supply-chain collaboration represents a structurebased approach of business-process matching that focuses on the structure (or behavior) of the process itself. eSourcing resembles the hierarchy depicted in Figure 1 where OEMs demand from the suppliers a mirroring of out-sourced processes in order to engage in the formation of a supply chain to avoid enactment problems [35][36][37]. ...
The question what a business-to-business (B2B) collaboration setup and enactment application-system should look like remains open. An important element of such collaboration constitutes the inter-organizational disclosure of business-process details so that the opposing parties may protect their business secrets. For that purpose, eSourcing [37] has been developed as a general businessprocess collaboration concept in the framework of the EU research project Cross-Work. The eSourcing characteristics are guiding for the design and evaluation of an eSourcing Reference Architecture (eSRA) that serves as a starting point for software developers of B2B-collaboration systems. In this paper we present the results of a scenario-based evaluation method conducted with the earlier specified eSourcing Architecture (eSA) that generates as results risks, sensitivity, and tradeoff points that must be paid attention to if eSA is implemented. Additionally, the evaluation method detects shortcomings of eSA in terms of integrated components that are required for electronic B2B-collaboration. The evaluation results are used for the specification of eSRA, which comprises all extensions for incorporating the results of the scenario-based evaluation, on three refinement levels. 1
... Within the framework of DIBPM, the concept of eSourcing [19][20][21]18] focuses on structurally harmonizing on an external level the intra-organizational business processes of a service consuming and one or many service providing organizations into a B2B supply-chain collaboration. Important elements of eSourcing On the left side of Figure 1, the three-level model is depicted as part of an eSourcing example. ...
... An additional perspective is contained in Figure 1 that crosses the boundaries of collaborating organizations, namely the eSourcing [17] perspective for which a catalogue of patterns [2,19,20] is specified. In the context of DIBPM, eSourcing is a framework for harmonizing on an external level the intra-organizational business processes of a service consuming and one or many service providing organizations into a B2B supplychain collaboration. ...
In the domain of business-to-business (B2B) collaboration, companies are pursuing the objective of electronically linking
their business processes for improving their supply chains. For creating such inter-organizational collaboration, intra- and
inter-organizational knowledge workers (IKWs) function as assisting experts. However, IKWs must not constantly ”reinvent the
wheel” but should instead be supported by a repository that contains knowledge about how to design business processes. Thus,
this paper proposes the support of IKWs by a pattern repository for the effective and efficient design of inter-organizational
business processes. A pattern is conceptually formulated knowledge that is technology independent. By storing patterns in
a uniform specification template of a meta model, it is possible to perform systematic reasoning. Having information readily
available about the technology support of individual patterns, IKWs can quickly analyse with which intersection of pattern
sets it is possible to link intra-organizational business processes.
... In the CrossWork [1] project, the objective is pursued to develop automated mechanisms for allowing dynamic workflow formation and enactment, enabling collaboration and strong synergies between different organizations. CrossWork uses eSourcing [28] as an integral concept which focusses on matching on an external level conceptually formulated service consuming and providing processes. Further details are explained in Section 3. ...
... Thus, in eSourcing those processes are matched by analyzing the respective control-flow. Furthermore , eSourcing is a foundation for the automatic formulation and enactment of electronic contracts [28] . To manage the inherent complexity of eSourcing, the employment of a three-level framework [19] is considered a suitable model. ...
The question of how a service consumer and a service provider should collaborate with each other in a business-to-business (B2B) setting is an ongoing research issue. The concept of electronic Sourcing (eSourcing) has been proposed as an integral concept with the EU research project CrossWork. The properties of eSourcing are explored, however, the question arises how a service consumer and a provider need to interact with each other during setup time for establishing an eSourcing configuration? The concept of eSourcing offers more flexibility than other approaches in that respect. Thus, this paper investigates the characteristics of interaction between a service consumer and provider during setup time for establishing an enactable B2B collaboration. These characteristics are employed to discover interaction patterns in a dop-down way that are exemplified for the concept of eSourcing. As such, the discovered patterns form the basis for the design of a reference architecture that serves as a foundation for the design of e-collaboration setup systems.
... After related work, the next section presents a specific concept for DIBPM that is the foundation for the pattern analysis of this paper, namely the concept of eSourcing. 18,37 In the CrossWork project, eSourcing is used as an integral concept for inter-organizationally harmonizing business processes. ...
... However, it is possible that further perspectives are included or omitted. An additional perspective is contained inFigure 1 that crosses the boundaries of collaborating organizations, namely the eSourcing [19] perspective for which a catalogue of patterns [2, 20, 21] is specified. In the context of DIBPM, eSourcing is a framework for harmonizing on an external level the intra-organizational business processes of a service consuming and one or many service providing organizations into a B2B supply-chain collaboration. ...
In the domain of business-to-business (B2B) collaboration, compa-nies are pursuing the objective of electronically linking their business processes for improving their supply chains. For creating such inter-organizational collab-oration, intra-and inter-organizational knowledge workers (IKWs) function as assisting experts. However, IKWs must not constantly "reinvent the wheel" but should instead be supported by a repository that contains knowledge about how to design business processes. Thus, this paper proposes the support of IKWs by a pattern repository for the effective and efficient design of inter-organizational business processes. A pattern is conceptually formulated knowledge that is tech-nology independent. By storing patterns in a uniform specification template of a meta model, it is possible to perform systematic reasoning. Having informa-tion readily available about the technology support of individual patterns, IKWs can quickly analyse with which intersection of pattern sets it is possible to link intra-organizational business processes.
Business enterprises today are increasingly being modeled as service-oriented enterprises (SOEs). That is, they are increasingly part of collaborations with other enterprises, with such collaborations being fulfilled by the exchange of business services among the participants. To that end, there is now a felt need for developing formal models of such collaborations, by leveraging past work on Enterprise Architecture (EA) models. In this paper, we present an architectural framework for modeling such collaborations as virtual enterprises (VEs), since these collaborations involve interactions among multiple enterprises. Our framework is modeled by treating the VE as an enterprise itself, but with special characteristics that distinguish it from regular enterprises, viz., nature of collaborations among the participating enterprises, extent of their participation, and conflicts among the participants. The latter characteristic arises due to the autonomy of the participants and the dynamic nature of inter-organizational business interactions, and is especially crucial for VE modeling. Throughout the paper, we illustrate our architectural framework with a realistic running example. We also present and discuss some future challenges regarding modeling dynamic behavior in the VE, in particular, conflict modeling & resolution among the participating enterprises.
Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires that these supply chains are highly agile, effective and efficient. Agility and effectiveness are obtained by forming highly dynamic virtual enterprises within supplier networks. We call these instant virtual enterprises (IVEs). The required efficiency of creating and operating IVEs can only be obtained by automated support for design, setup and enactment of business processes within these IVEs. This process support involves the dynamic composition of local processes of network members into global processes at the IVE level. This functionality goes significantly beyond traditional approaches for interorganizational workflow management. The approach, architecture and technology required for this dynamic network process management in IVEs are outlined in this paper. We show how the developed approach is applied in the automotive industry in the context of the CrossWork IST project.
