Supporting business process management and coordination in a virtual enterprise

The availability of a modeling and management framework for distributed business processes is a major requirement for the implantation of the virtual enterprise paradigm. The business process creation, distribution, and execution requirements are discussed and a workflow-based modeling and execution approach and support tools are presented. Finally major results on coordination of such processes from two research projects are summarized and directions for further research outlined.

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