Purpose – Aims to discuss the development of workflow standards in the context of the internet. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines the history behind process interoperability standards such as Wf‐XML and BPEL4WS. Findings – Concludes that it will take a while for the dust to settle...

Purpose – This paper seeks to establish a design for cross‐organizational workflow based on logical channels of communication. A set of scenarios is established which can be used to test the effectiveness of future architectures. Design/methodology/approach – Starting with scenarios based...

Purpose – Aims to show that workflow management needs to rethink its basis of discussion in order to meet today's challenges and to provide adequate IT support for heterogeneous workflow networks. Design/methodology/approach – First, the need for flexibility in relating resources in workflow...

Purpose – Collaborative processes are relatively complex and are therefore difficult to handle. Representing the joint processes and capturing the interactions among stakeholders in a structured way are critical to improve the collaboration productivity. This paper aims to present a generic...