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Documentary Petri Nets: A Modeling Representation for Electronic Trade Procedures

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Business Process Management

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This paper introduces the concept of an electronic trade scenario (executable transaction model) as a potential solution to “open” electronic commerce - trade among parties that have no prior trading relationship. The basic idea is that these trade scenarios would be stored in a “global repository”, and downloaded by trading parties as needed for a particular trade. A representation, called Documentary Petri Nets (DPN) is used to represent such trade scenarios. The InterProcs system is described as a prototyping environment to support the design and execution of such trading systems using this representation. Given that the parties are often trading at “arm’s length”, a key focus is the development of trustworthy trade scenarios that have sufficient controls and evidentiary documentation.

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  1. Erasmus University Research Institute for Decision and Information Systems (EURIDIS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

    Ronald M. Lee

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  1. Faculty of Technology and Management, Department of Information and Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil van der Aalst

  2. Mathematisch-Geographische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Informatik, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Ostenstraße 28, 85072, Eichstätt, Germany

    Jörg Desel

  3. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Postfach 111932, 60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Andreas Oberweis

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Lee, R.M. (2000). Documentary Petri Nets: A Modeling Representation for Electronic Trade Procedures. In: van der Aalst, W., Desel, J., Oberweis, A. (eds) Business Process Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45594-9_23

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