关键词: 工作流建模, 跨组织流程, 公共视图, 对象Petri网

Abstract: Cross-organizational collaboration encompasses two main factors: the coordination of information flows among organizations and the autonomy of each participant. This paper proposes an approach based on public view and object Petri net, which is inspired by the similarity between cross-organizational workflow modeling and object Petri net. The public view of each organization is the external projection of actions that are relevant for partners, which hides the details of the internal process. This paper constructs the information flow net of organizational coordination by the composition of each participant’s public view, and establishes the synchronization relationship between the organization’s internal processes and communication structure by the interaction set of object Petri net. A modeling instance demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach.

Key words: workflow modeling, cross-organizational process, public view, object Petri net