Title: View driven inter-organisational workflows

Authors: Amirreza Tahamtan; Johann Eder

Addresses: Information and Software Engineering Group, Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188, A-1040 Vienna, Austria. ' Department of Informatic-Systems, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Universitaetsstrasse 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria

Abstract: We propose a layered architecture for choreographies and orchestrations of web services. The proposed architecture uses the concept of process views. The distributed nature of the model and the concept of views improve the privacy of business partners but do not limit their interaction capabilities, an essential feature in B2B and inter-organisational applications. Our approach enables description of business processes in different levels of detail with a uniform modelling language and is fully distributed.

Keywords: web service composition; choreography; orchestration; workflow views; abstraction; aggregation; inter-organisational workflows; web services; UML; uniform modelling language; privacy; interaction capabilities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2012.045846

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2012 Vol.6 No.2, pp.93 - 112

Received: 15 Jul 2010
Accepted: 30 Jan 2011
Published online: 16 Aug 2014 *

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