Towards Combining Declarative Specification with On-the-fly Mediation
Résumé
Business processes interoperability is an impor-
tant issue for distributed applications in collaborative envi-
ronments. This problem is further complicated in dynamic
collaborative environments where stakeholders can quit the
network and be replaced by new ones. To date, existing
approaches do not provide the necessary flexibility to handle
the dynamic nature of the network. In this work a formal
framework is developed which combines cross-organizational
process specifications with mediation-based solutions to ensure
business processes interoperability. The concepts defined in
this framework are used to build flexible collaboration con-
tracts that better handle the dynamicity of the network. The
applicability of the framework has been illustrated through
a real-life industrial use-case in the aerospace industry for
collaborative aircraft design process. The proposed framework
provides higher level concepts than existing process modeling
languages which better captures the business intent behind the
collaboration