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2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03)
p. 199
How Public Conversation Management Integrated with Local Business Process Management
Qiming Chen, Commerce One Inc.
Meichun Hsu, Commerce One Inc.
Vinkesh Mehta, Commerce One Inc.
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In order for enterprises to collaborate at the business-process
level, they must deal with two kinds of
processes: the public conversation processes specifying
inter-enterprise document flows, and the private
business processes specifying local workflows of
document manipulation and other related tasks. The
provisioning, interaction and integration of conversation
management and business process management, have
become the common interest of the e-business industry.
In this paper we discuss the relationship and
interaction between conversation management and
business process management; point out the difference
between public conversation processes (e.g. BPSS
processes) and peer-conversation processes (e.g.
BPEL4WS processes). We then illustrate our
collaborative process management system that has
functionally separated conversation manager and
business process manager. The conversation manager is
based on the ebXML BPSS standard; it is used for
validating document exchange at run-time and for
activating corresponding process tasks. We have also
proposed the conversation model driven asynchronous
task activation mechanism for interaction between a
conversation process and the coupled business process
dynamically. With this mechanism, generic APIs
between the conversation manager and the business
process manager can be easily defined and used by
multiple plugged-in conversation managers.
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Citation:
Qiming Chen, Meichun Hsu, Vinkesh Mehta,
"How Public Conversation Management Integrated with Local Business Process Management,"
cec,
p. 199,
2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03),
2003
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