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2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'04)   pp. 359-368
Matchmaking for Business Processes Based on Choreographies
Andreas Wombacher, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute
Peter Fankhauser, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute
Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute
Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute

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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EEE.2004.1287334
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Abstract
Web services have a potential to enhance B2B e-commerce over the Internet by allowing companies and organizations to publish their business processes on service directories where potential trading partners can find them. This can give rise to new business paradigms based on ad-hoc trading relations as companies, particularly small to medium scale, can cheaply and flexibly enter into fruitful contracts, e.g., through subcontracting from big companies by simply publishing their business processes and the services they offer. More business process support by the web service infrastructure is however needed before such a paradigm change can materialize. A service for searching and matchmaking of business processes does not yet exist in the current infrastructure. We believe that such a service is needed and will enable companies and organizations to be able to establish ad-hoc business relations without relying on manually negotiated interorganizational workflows. This paper gives a formal semantics to business process matchmaking based on finite state automata extended by logical expressions associated to states.
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Citation:  Andreas Wombacher, Peter Fankhauser, Bendick Mahleko, Erich Neuhold, "Matchmaking for Business Processes Based on Choreographies," eee, pp. 359-368,  2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'04),  2004