Loosely coupled interorganizational work ̄ows: modeling and analyzing work ̄ows crossing organizational boundaries
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Today's corporations often must operate across organizational boundaries. Phenomena such as electronic commerce, extended enterprises, and the Internet stimulate cooperation between organizations. Therefore, it is interesting to consider work ̄ows distributed over a number of organizations. Interorganizational work ̄ow offers companies the opportunity to reshape business processes beyond the boundaries of their own organizations. Two important questions are addressed in this paper: (1) what are the minimal requirements any interorganizational work ̄ow should satisfy? and (2) how does one decide whether an interorganizational work ̄ow, modeled in terms of Petri nets, is consistent with an interaction structure speci®ed through a message sequence chart? # 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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