Propagation of Agents to Trusted Organizations

In cross-organizational transactions, resolving the responsible agent is always an issue. This is usually done using local address books, directories and similar information sources. The redundant maintenance of such external organizational information causes many discrepancies between the organizational models. This paper describes an approach to overcome this problem. It shows how organizational information of a business partner is stored consistently. Organizations propagate selected internal information to their trusted partners. This includes the organizational structure with its units, roles and agents, as well as relations and responsibilities. Which information is propagated can be adjusted on a fine level of granularity using language expressions.