An approach to inter-organizational workflow management in an electronic instit...

• Autor(es): Cardoso, Henrique ; Leitão, Paulo ; Oliveira, Eugénio
• Data: 2006
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1540
• Origem: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Assunto(s): Multi-agent systems; Inter-organizational workflow; Electronic Institution
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

In a virtual organization, different business partners (individual organizations) cooperate in order to achieve a common goal. The coordination of the corresponding inter-organizational workflow is an important issue. In this paper an approach towards managing the operational embodiment of a manufacturing consortium is presented. This approach is conceptualized as a service within an Electronic Institution framework providing several agent-based services related with the formation and operation of virtual organizations. The behavior of the inter-organizational workflow management service is presented, modeled as an extension to a contract monitoring service. The paper also deals with the information exchange needs between these services and with the partners involved in a virtual organization contractual relationship.