Compatibility Analysis of Local Process Views in Interorganizational Workflow

In an interorganizational collaboration environment, due to different cultural backgrounds, participants from dif-ferent organizations always have different views of model-ing workflow process. Moreover, organizations require pre-serving privacy and autonomy of its own workflow. There-fore, workflow inter-visibility is expected to be as little as collaborations need. This paper proposes an approach of modeling loosely coupled interorganizational workflow considering different views of organizations. In this ap-proach, organizations have their own local process views of modeling workflow process instead of sharing a pre-defined global workflow. Furthermore, we design compat-ibility analysis mechanism for different local process views to detect incompatibilities among organizations. Finally, we provide a demo tool for the proposed mechanism. 1