eContractual choreography-language properties towards cross-organizational business collaboration

• Published in: Journal of internet services and applications Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 1
• Main Authors: Norta, Alex, Ma, Lixin, Duan, Yucong, Rull, Addi, Kõlvart, Merit, Taveter, Kuldar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer London 24.04.2015; Sociedade Brasileira de Computação
• Subjects: Computer Applications; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Information Systems and Communication Service; IT in Business; Processor Architectures; Service Composition for the Future Internet; Business process; Smart contracting; Expressiveness; B2B; Choreography; Sociotechnical; Cross-organizational; eSourcing; Suitability; Decentralized autonomous organizations
• ISSN: 1867-4828; 1869-0238
• DOI: 10.1186/s13174-015-0023-7

Meaningfully automating sociotechnical business collaboration promises efficiency-, effectiveness-, and quality increases for realizing next-generation decentralized autonomous organizations. For automating business-process aware cross-organizational operations, the development of existing choreography languages is technology driven and focuses less on sociotechnical suitability and expressiveness concepts and properties that recognize the interaction between people in organizations and technology in workplaces. This gap our suitability- and expressiveness exploration fills by means of a cross-organizational collaboration ontology that we map as a proof-of-concept evaluation to the eSourcing Markup Language (eSML). The latter we test in a feasibility case study to meaningfully support the automation of business collaboration. The developed eSourcing ontology and eSML is replicable for exploring strengths and weaknesses of other choreography languages.