Abstract: Extend case transfer architecture inter-organization workflow management fits the needs of collaboration commerce. However, during the third step of Extend case transfer architecture, modifications of private workflows might cause some fatal problems, such as dead locks, live locks and dead tasks. These problems could change the soundness and efficiency of overall workflow. This paper presents a Petri net based approach to protect the inheritance of public workflows in private domains, and discusses an implementation of our collaboration commerce workflow model. 19 Refs. In English.

Key words: C-commerce; Interorganization workflows; ECTA; Petri net; WF-net