Inter-enterprise collaborative business process management

A collaborative process manager (CPM) to support decentralized, peer-to-peer process management for inter-enterprise collaboration at the business process level is developed. Each of the CPM is used to schedule, dispatch and control the tasks of the process that the player is responsible for, and the CPMs interoperate through an inter-CPM messaging protocol. It is expected that CPMs will be the basic building blocks for a scalable, dynamic, inter-enterprise middleware framework. The proposed approach is expected to be used to enhance the collaboration of business partners, and to support inter-enterprise business processes.