Title: Dynamic construction and processing of inter-organisational business processes

Authors: Xuelian Xiao; Jeff DePree; Stanley Y.W. Su

Addresses: Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, E457 CSE Building, P.O. Box 116120, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. ' Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, E457 CSE Building, P.O. Box 116120, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. ' Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, E470 CSE Building, P.O. Box 116120, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

Abstract: For business organisations to survive and compete successfully in the growing global economy, they must collaborate with one another and share not only the data, but also human and organisational knowledge captured in business rules, business processes and manual and automated operations. These organisational resources must be used to dynamically construct and process inter-organisational business processes to accommodate changes in different business environments. This paper presents an integrated business rule and process specification and a user interface tool for the specification of organisational resources. It also presents an event-triggered knowledge network system, which automatically translates different types of business rules and business processes into code and wraps the code as web services for uniform processing in a web service infrastructure. The system provides an event-triggered processing mechanism, which enables the integration and interoperation of business data, rules, processes and operations and the dynamic construction and processing of inter-organisational business processes.

Keywords: e-business; electronic business; business rules; business processes; event-triggered rules; rule processing; inter-organisational processes; dynamic construction; dynamic processing; business organisations; global economy; collaboration; data sharing; human knowledge; organisational knowledge; knowledge capture; manual operations; automated operations; automation; organisational resources; business environments; integrated specifications; user interfaces; knowledge networks; Java codes; web services; uniform processing; processing mechanisms; process integration; interoperation; business data; internet; world wide web; programming languages; computer programmes; systems research.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2011.043158

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2011 Vol.5 No.6, pp.527 - 545

Published online: 22 Apr 2015 *

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