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Inter-organizational business processes often involve contracting. ICT solutions for contracting processes must offer high flexibility in changing the structure of the contracting process. This can be achieved by ‘process-aware’ software components which are configured by an explicit model of the contracting process: the contracting workflow. However, the design of a contracting workflow from scratch is a complex task. We propose a solution in which contracting workflows are composed from standard building blocks and show that protocol patterns for business transaction protocols are a necessity for making these standard building blocks available. Finally, we propose a number of protocol patterns for the negotiation phase in a transaction.
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van Dijk, A. (2003). Contracting Workflows and Protocol Patterns. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Weske, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2678. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44895-0_11
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