Business process design framework for B2B collaboration

Abstract

The aim of this work was to show how the developed tools facilitate the using of our framework for interenterprise collaboration at the business process level. Indeed, while both requester and provider procedures could be considered complex and annoying tasks, the use of both DREAMs4SPEC and DREAMs4BPEL can make easy and natural these activities. In particular, concerning the first tool, the key aspect is represented by the chance to create and annotate a partial process (which represents the specification) in a integrated environment. Instead, regarding the second tool, the creation and the annotation procedure must be done in the same simple way as documentation generation for several programming languages (e.g. JavaDoc for Java, CppDoc for C++, NDoc for C# and VisualBasic).