Cross-Organisational Workflow Formation and Enactment


CROSSWORK has started to develop automated mechanisms to allow dynamic workflow formation and enactment, enabling hard collaboration and strong synergies between different automotive organizations.

This project is developed under the auspices of the European Commission within the IST and VI Framework programs.

Achieving sustainable growth and improving competitiveness in increasingly complex and dynamic market environments requires businesses to build agile partnerships and alliances. Market demands can only be satisfied within dynamic networks of collaborating organisations. True collaboration inside such networks requires tight but flexible integration of business processes.
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CROSSWORK project is focused on distributed, cross-organisational development processes in the automotive industry. The project wants to develop automated mechanisms to allow dynamic workflow formation and enactment, enabling hard collaboration and strong synergies between different automotive organizations. This will result in less effort for development, maintenance and adaptation of enterprise models. To facilitate automated share and exchange of information across organizational boundaries, ontology will be developed also.

CROSSWORK consortium is a well-balanced group including research centers, universities, automotive companies and systems integrators. Nine organizations joining consortium are: Atos Origin sae (Spain, systems integration); University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology (United Kingdom); Profactor Produktionsforschungs GMBH (Austria, research center); Technology Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands); Växjö Universitet (Sweden); Communications Engineering Kepler University Linz (Austria); Exodus SA (Greece, software development); Intier Automotive Ebyl Interiors GMBH (Germany, automotive); OÖ. Technologie und Marketinggesellschaft m.b.H. (Austria, automotive).

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