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Interaction is the central concern of the B2B E-commerce today. The concept of workflow views provides a convenient interface for advanced business transactions across enterprise boundaries. However, until now there is little work discussing the implementation issue of workflow views. In this paper, we present a light-weighted implementation model for workflow views, which advocates an easy-to-deploy approach to implement workflow view functions based on existing WFMSs without breaking their integrity. Via this approach, enterprises can equip their workflow systems with the versatile workflow views in an efficient and economical way.
This research was largely supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR, China (Project. No. CityU 117405), and sponsored by 973 National Basic Research Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No. 2003CB317006, State Key Lab of Software Engineering (Wuhan University, China) under grant: SKLSE03-01, National Natural Science Foundation of China (60573095) and Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (NCET-04-0675).
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Shan, Z., Yang, Y., Li, Q., Luo, Y., Peng, Z. (2006). A Light-Weighted Approach to Workflow View Implementation. In: Zhou, X., Li, J., Shen, H.T., Kitsuregawa, M., Zhang, Y. (eds) Frontiers of WWW Research and Development - APWeb 2006. APWeb 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11610113_114
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