Value-oriented design of service coordination processes: correctness and trust

The rapid growth of service coordination languages creates a need for methodological support for coordination design. Coordination design differs from workflow design because a coordination process connects different businesses that can each make design decisions independently from the others, and no business is interested in supporting the business processes of others. In multi-business cooperative design, design decisions are only supported by all businesses if they contribute to the profitability of each participating business. So in order to make coordination design decisions supported by all participating businesses, requirements for a coordination process should be derived from the business model that makes the coordination profitable for each participating business. We claim that this business model is essentially a model of intended value exchanges. We model the intended value exchanges of a business model as e3 -value value models and coordination processes as UML activi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Roel Wieringa, Jaap Gordijn
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Coordination Design, Coordination Process, SAC 2005, Service Coordination