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In this modern era, organisations have to work in coordination with many other organisations in order to succeed in business. Interacting organisations can only proceed in business if they have compatible workflows. This paper proposes a framework to automatically generate compatible workflows for multiple interacting organisations from their process definitions and service descriptions. Existing systems can reconcile existing workflows only, and cannot generate compatible workflows for multiple organisations automatically. The proposed system is different from existing systems since it targets workflow collaboration by generating workflows automatically. This allows the organisations to save the time that would otherwise be spent in modelling workflows and making them compatible with the workflows of interacting organisations.
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Saleem, M., Chung, P.W., Fatima, S., Dai, W. (2011). Cross Organisational Compatible Plans Generation Framework. In: Bramer, M., Petridis, M., Nolle, L. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVIII. SGAI 2011. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2318-7_17
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