This allows for
the explicit modeling of the coordination of individual business activities, and the
e-business process itself, using the information and knowledge resources in interorganizational
e-business processes over virtually integrated business enterprises.
Business Activities depend on resources and require coordination mechanisms to
resolve these dependencies in an e-business process. A resource is related to an ac-
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tivity through a Coordinates relationship, where the resource coordinates business
activities through various coordination mechanisms.
Resource ??? (Coordinates ?‹…BusinessActivity)
BusinessActivity ??? (HasCoordination ?‹… Resource)
Description logic allows for the specification of generalization-specialization hierarchies
of relationships. We use the notion of activity-resource dependency where
activities have a sharing, flow or fit dependency with a resource (Malone et al.
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