PhD Qualifying Examination


"A Survey on Cross-Organizational Process Collaboration"

Mr. Chunyang Ye



Abstract:

Advances in Internet technologies have revolutionized the way businesses
interact with their partners and customers. An increasing number of
organizations now collaborate with their business partners through
business processes deployed over the web. These processes are typically
distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous. Their collaboration introduces
interesting research issues such as scalability, volatility, autonomy,
heterogeneity, dependability, security, privacy and so on. This survey
presents an analysis of the major research issues and various existing
techniques for cross-organizational process collaboration. We find that
they generally address four aspects: establishment of partnership,
collaboration modeling, infrastructure support and quality of service.
Recent research work is discussed and assessed systematically on each
aspect. The discussion is illustrated using a manufacturing process
collaboration example.


Date:     		Friday, 20 January 2006

Time:                   11:15a.m.-1:15p.m.

Venue:                  Room 4480
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Dr. Shing Chi Cheung (Supervisor)
			Prof. Frederick Lochovsky (Chairperson)
			Prof. Vincent Shen
			Dr. Fan Zhang


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