Enforcing Business Collaboration Consistency in Business Transaction Net

Managing business collaboration is about coordinating the flow of information among organizations and linking their business processes into a cohesive whole. A consistent outcome is expected within and among involving organization. However, inadequate coordination onthe autonomous, heterogeneous, and long-lasting cross-organizational business processes can lead to inconsistent execution in loosely-coupled environment, e.g., Service Oriented Computing (SOC). Therefore, a model that describes business collaboration to enforce consistency for each partner as well as consistency for thecollaboration as a whole becomes essential. Previously we proposed a Business Transaction Net(BTx-Net) as a theoretical model to describe business collaboration during design time and manage consistency at run-time execution. In this paper, we will further explore the BTx-Net´s enforceability for managing consistency by performingTransactional Management Actions(TMAs) which are needed to be taken during the occurrence of runtime faults and exceptions.