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Collaborative business scenarios require a flexible integration of enterprises. To manage inter-organizational business processes, existing concepts for business process management (BPM) need to be adopted and extended. This paper presents a conceptual architecture for cross-enterprise processes’ planning, implementation, and controlling. Core component of the architecture is a distributed repository managing all required data and information, which especially obtains a process-oriented view on collaboration networks. Cross-organizational processes need close coordination among networking partners. This is achieved through the integration of business process models. Thus we further propose a procedure model of an XML-based model transformation, which reduces complexity of the modeling-task and enables model integration on a conceptual level.
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- Business Process
- Model Transformation
- Collaboration Network
- Business Process Management
- Process Execution
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Theling, T., Zwicker, J., Loos, P., Vanderhaeghen, D. (2005). An Architecture for Collaborative Scenarios Applying a Common BPMN-Repository. In: Kutvonen, L., Alonistioti, N. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11498094_16
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