Paper review: Contract driven cross-organizational business processes

Ustun Yildiz, Olivera Marjanovic, and Claude Godart, Contract driven cross-organizational business processes, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Management and Business, IMB (V. Khandelwal and M. S. Raisinghani, eds.), (Australia), pp. 120–130, Australian Computer Society, 2006.

Online PDF available here.

• They have a term "cross-organizational" that really seems to similarly refer to our concept of a Community of Interest (I think).
• From abstract: process monitoring and coordination mechanism, generic contract model, event-driven infrastructure
• Interesting keywords: Cross-organizational Collaboration, E-contracting, Complex Event Processing
  
• Again, this paper is from a business perspective, (like the banking industry example Emmerich used). "interconnected in order to satisfy the mutual benefits of their owners". It is not mission directed, per se.
  
• Cross organizational relationship is defined via a business contract (not sure if this is formalized or not) which is specified independently of the execution details.
• "The contract defines in advance the business constraints that the business partners are supposed to respect when they collaborate". -- so very similar to the idea I had for the contract layer of information in the delta-federation.
• They're using some sort of middleware (Complex Event Processing - CEP) to formalize event-driven applications. It has constraints, parties, operations, metrics, dates, objects.
• Seems to bring in concepts from deontic logic (permission, obligation, prohibition), comparisons (equal, less than, greater than, etc.), and aggregation.
• And then the paper stops, hard to see a specific addition. I guess they borrow the language, and put a middlware between the two interacting partners to monitor. That may be all they do.