Constructing customized process views

To enable effective cross-organizational collaborations, process providers have to offer views on their internal processes to consumers. A process view hides details of an internal process that are secret to or irrelevant for the consumer. This paper describes a formal two-step approach for constructing customized process views on structured process models. First, a non-customized process view is constructed from an internal structured process model by aggregating internal activities the provider wishes to hide. Second, a customized process view is constructed by aggregating and omitting activities from the non-customized view that are not requested by the consumer. To show the feasibility of the approach, an existing architecture for setting up dynamic virtual enterprises is extended