A Workflow Model for Designing and Managing Distributed Business Process in Virtual Enterprises

This papers introduces a research activity undertaken to identify the main strategies for enabling an easy and efficient integration among dispersed, heterogeneous workflow systems in virtual enterprises. It starts from the definition of the main features characterizing a virtual enterprise and from the main approaches to workflow designing. The main results are a taxonomy of the desirable characteristics of a workflow management system for virtual enterprises and an assessment of the workflowability of the virtual process.