Collaboration Of Dynamic Inter-organizational Workflow In Electronic Commerce

Collaborative Mechanism of Inter-organizational relationship is how to manage the dependency relationship between actions across organizational boundaries. For inter-organizational actions mainly deal with the mutual flow of logistic, currency and information. The system of Electronic Commerce must exactly, reliably and real-timely process and control them. Information flow is being produced when logistic and currency flow is being produced, and then the information flow direct the orientation of logistic and currency flow, control the scale and velocity of logistic and currency flow. Thus, the collaboration of inter-organizational relationship is mainly the problem of the intercommunication, share and control of information. The collaborative mechanism of inter-organizational relationship can be described by the designing and realization of the getting, delivery, processing, storing information and the sharing mechanism of information. Workflow technology is an enabling technology for coordinating the activities of an enterprise. It allows people and companies to model business processes and to control the execution of these processes. So it is a good method to resolve the problem of the collaborative mechanism of inter-organizational relationship by workflow technology.The paper presents a novel approach to request of the collaborative mechanism of inter-organizational relationship from the aspect of collaboration of inter-organizational workflow. Our goal is to provide support for organizations which are involved in a shared but not pre-modeled cooperative workflow across organizational boundaries. Our approach allows for partial visibility of workflows and their resources, thus providing powerful ways for inter-organizational workflow configuration. Varying degrees of visibility of workflows enable organizations to retain required levels of privacy and security of internal workflows. Our presented view concept provides a high degree of flexibility for participating organizations, since internal structures of collaborative workflows may be adapted without changes in the inter-organizational workflows. Furthermore, we provide workflow participants with the freedom to change their workflows without changing their roles in the...