Zirpins, C.;
Piccinelli, G.;
(2002)
Interaction-driven definition of e-business processes.
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Proceedings of 26th International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2002).
(pp. pp. 738-740).
IEEE Computer Society
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Abstract
Business-to-business interaction (B2Bi) is the next step for corporate IT [1]. Business relationships become increasingly dynamic, and new requirements emerge for data and process management. Standardisation initiatives are successfully targeting business ontology [4]. Still, business agility mainly depends on the flexibility of the business processes of a company. In the B2B space, traditional approaches to process modelling and management are inadequate. Today more than ever, traditional workflow management is crucial for the internal effectiveness of a company. Internal efficiency is a prerequisite for external agility. From both a technical and a business perspective, internal workflow management relies on specific assumptions in terms of resources involved in the process, as well as the process itself [2]. Level of control, availability, reliability, and cost stability are parameters that traditional process models and technology can almost take for granted. A single authority ruling on the process definition and the total control over process execution are also basic concepts for internal workflows. From a business perspective, a big upfront investment is put in the complete definition of process specifications. A different conceptual framework is required for the definition and management of e-business processes [3, 5]. The intrinsic capability to adapt to rapidly changing business requirements becomes crucial. The line of research explored in this paper derives from an approach to process modelling and management that explicitly targets the peculiarities and dynamics of B2Bi. In the model we propose, the upfront specification of the interaction logic of a company can be limited to partially specified processes and basic interaction rules. Specific information is then gathered from the observation of actual instances of business interaction, and used to refine and extend the initial model. In addition to the enforcement of explicit business requirement, the goal is to capture and leverage implicit operational knowledge. In the following sections, we present an overview of the methodology we are currently experimenting with for the inference of complex processes from business interaction flows. For our initial experiments, we focus on business messages compliant with the RosettaNet standard [4].
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Interaction-driven definition of e-business processes |
| Event: | 26th International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2002) |
| Location: | Oxford, UK |
| Dates: | 26-29 August 2002 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1045090 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©2002 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/779 |
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