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Modeling Electronic Workflow Markets

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Market-based inter-organizational workflow management integrates workflow management and business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce; it is a novel approach to workflow management which regards workflows as goods traded on an electronic market. In this paper, we investigate modeling aspects of electronic workflow markets. The workflow marketplace is modeled as a federation of workflow systems. Providers export workflows to the federation, and clients import workflows offered by other parties. Providers model prices and execution time of workflows, and requestors model budgets and deadlines for imported workflows. This information is then exploited at runtime for trading workflows on the market. In particular, cost and time requirements are used to determine the optimal provider based on the current execution state of the requestor.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, University of Zurich, Zurich

    Andreas Geppert

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  1. School of Accountancy and Information Systems, Brigham Young University Marriott School, 585 TNRB, P.O. Box 23087, 84602-3087, Provo, Utah, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  2. Insitute for Business Informatics and Application Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  3. Computer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Postfach 101344, 03013, Cottbus, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

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Geppert, A. (2000). Modeling Electronic Workflow Markets. In: Liddle, S.W., Mayr, H.C., Thalheim, B. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web. ER 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1921. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45394-6_6

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