Modeling the Business Collaboration Context
Bart Orriëns · 2006
Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for flexible and adaptive business collaborations due to their predefined and inflexible nature that precludes them accommodating business dynamics. In this report we present the second component of our rule driven approach for business collaboration development and management. The approach provides a model driven approach to capture the context in which business collaboration takes place; where the benefit is that enterprizes are enabled to describe their cooperations with others in the form of models. This allows enterprizes to make their own position, collaboration potential and agreements explicit in an unambiguous and well-defined manner. The resulting models can subsequently be utilized for communication and reference purposes, as well as constitute the basis for the actual execution of collaborations.