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

• Author(s): Cardoso, Henrique ; Leitão, Paulo ; Oliveira, Eugénio
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1540
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Multi-agent systems; Inter-organizational workflow; Electronic Institution
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

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.