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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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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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