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BPM 2006: Business Process Management pp 33–48Cite as

Tracking over Collaborative Business Processes

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Workflow monitoring is a routine function of a workflow manag-ement system for tracking the progress of running workflow instances. To keep participating organisations as autonomous entities in an inter-organisational business collaboration environment, however, it brings challenges in generating workflow tracking structures and manipulating instance correspondences between different participating organisations. Aiming to tackle these problems, this paper proposed a matrix based framework on the basis of our relative workflow model. This framework enables a participating organisation to derive tracking structures over its relative workflows and the involved relevant workflows of its partner organisations, and to perform workflow tracking with the generated tracking structures.

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  1. Centre for Information Technology Research, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Xiaohui Zhao & Chengfei Liu

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  1. Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Schahram Dustdar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

    José Luiz Fiadeiro

  3. Kno.e.sis Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, Ohio

    Amit P. Sheth

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Zhao, X., Liu, C. (2006). Tracking over Collaborative Business Processes. In: Dustdar, S., Fiadeiro, J.L., Sheth, A.P. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11841760_4

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