Modeling Interorganizational Workflows with XML Nets
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Efficient interorganizational business processes in the field of e-commerce require the integration of electronic document and data interchange and interorganizational processes. We propose to support interorganizational business processes by so-called XML nets, a new kind of high-level Petri nets. XML nets are a formal, graphical modeling language that allows to model both the flow of XML documents and the business process. XML nets are based on GXSL, a graphical XML schema definition language, and its related graphical XML document manipulation language (XManiLa). They can be directly executed by a workflow engine. Advantage of the formal foundation of XML nets can be taken e.g. when analyzing a (global) interorganizational workflow model: XML nets support the process of identifying relevant process fragments, assigning them to the appropriate organizational units, and thus help deriving an improved, process-oriented organizational structure.
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