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Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises

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This chapter describes the realization of the business process composition cluster in the CrossWork architecture. Business process composition is concerned with automated means for constructing business processes in a dynamically forged virtual organization. A business process is operationalized in a workflow, which can be supported by workflow management technology. We first introduce several perspectives for business process collaborations and discuss how they relate to each other. Next, the languages used for process specification are presented. We examine the workflow composition module, which provides support for (semi-) automatic composition of global workflows from local workflows of members in a VE. Before a composed workflow can be used in practice, it needs to be tested – this is discussed in the next subsection. The interfaces used for the transfer of a composed workflow to its execution environment are subsequently discussed in this chapter.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Rik Eshuis

  2. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Alex Norta

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  1. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street W., Manchester, M156PB, United Kingdom

    Nikolay Mehandjiev

  2. Faculty of Technology Management, Section Quality of Products & Processes, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Paul Grefen

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Eshuis, R., Norta, A. (2010). Business Process Composition. In: Mehandjiev, N., Grefen, P. (eds) Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-691-5_7

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