Contract-Based Transaction Management in Cross-Organizational Workflow Management

Cross-organizational workflow management is an essential ingredient for process integration in virtual enterprises. To obtain cross-organizational workflow processes with robust semantics, these processes should be supported by highlevel cross-organizational transaction management. In this context, transaction management should support both intra- and inter-organizational transaction semantics. An important aspect of the latter is support for rollback over organization boundaries. In static virtual enterprises, complete transaction structures can be statically defined in cross-organizational workflow processes. In dynamic virtual enterprises, though, transaction structures must be constructed on-the-fly, based on process control requirements of the partners that decide to form the virtual enterprise. This presentation shows how the problem of cross-organizational transaction management is approached in the CrossFlow project, in which virtual enterprises are dynamically formed on the b...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ISDO
• Authors: Paul W. P. J. Grefen
• Keywords: Business, Cross-organizational Workflow, ISDO 2000, Transaction Management, Virtual Enterprise