B2B Relationships: Defining Public Business Processes with Interaction Protocols

PABLO VILLARREAL,; ENRIQUE SALOMONE; OMAR CHIOTTI,

Chillan

Congreso; III Workshop de Ingeniería de Software (WIS 2003); 2003

Several  collaborative  business  models  have  appeared  recently  to  improve  supply  chain  management.  They  are supported  by Business-to-Business  (B2B)  relationships  among  enterprises.  The  challenge  of B2B  applications  is  to fulfill  the  requirements  of  autonomy,  decentralization,  peer-to-peer  interactions  and  negotiation  imposed  by collaborative models to manage public processes. In this work we describe the use of interaction protocols to define and manage public processes in B2B relationships. Different aspects for representing interaction protocols in the context of B2B relationships are discussed. In addition, we provide an example of a public process modeled with an interaction protocol, which is defined graphically using AUML and textually using ebXML BPSS. Finally, we include a discussion of the benefits of the interaction protocols for modeling public processes in B2B relationships.