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In a virtual enterprise context, business process interoperability and cooperative process enactment are important in order to achieve a common objective despite the distribution in space, time and organizations. A contract is a facility that allows for deploying cross-organizational processes, monitoring and enforcing the composition and the enactment of these processes both inside and outside the organization’s boundaries. This paper presents a contract model for describing clauses that address business interactions, for deploying cross-organiza-tional activities (called synchronization points) and for enforcing and controling policies through the use of ECA rules. A contract is an XML document that allows for describing how process Web services cooperate and how synchronization points enforce contract clauses.
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Perrin, O., Godart, C. (2003). A Contract Model to Deploy and Control Cooperative Processes. In: Benatallah, B., Shan, MC. (eds) Technologies for E-Services. TES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2819. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39406-8_7
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