A bottom-up approach to inter-enterprise business processes

This paper presents a bottom-up approach for inter-enterprise business processes cooperation. This approach uses preestablished business processes of the different potential partners and interconnects them, using cooperation policies. The approach provides the means to meet the requirements for cooperation that are cooperation policies, heterogeneity support, privacy principle respect, established business processes preservation, and trust. The approach consists of three steps: partner identification, cooperation policies establishement, and cooperation monitoring and control.