Towards Privacy-Friendly Transparency Services in Inter-organizational Business Processes

Abstract

With upcoming regulation, the task of implementing transparency services gets a critical part of all electronic commerce. Within inter-organizational business processes, this task becomes more challenging, as even determination of the topology of a service composition within such a setting is getting a complex issue of its own. In this paper, we shed a light on the functional, legal, and economic issues and challenges of realizing useful transparency services. We also propose a decentralized solution for supporting anonymized collection of transparency-relevant information based on the principles of service-orientation.