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RosettaNet is a leading industry effort that creates standards for business interactions among the participants in a supply chain. The RosettaNet standard defines over 100 Partner Interface Processes (PIPs) through which the participants can exchange business documents necessary to enact a supply chain. However, each PIP specifies the business interactions at a syntactic level, but fails to capture the business meaning of the interactions to which they apply.

In contrast, this paper takes as its point of departure a commitment-based approach for business modeling that gives central position to interactions captured in terms of their meaning. This paper defines commitment-based business patterns abstracted from RosettaNet PIPs. Doing so yields models that are clearer, more flexible to changing requirements, and potentially enacted through multiple operationalizations. This paper validates the …