ebBP 11/1/2005: Brief Mention on Other Collaboration Use Cases

[Monica J Martin <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Given our comment and discussion on cross-organizational processes, I've 
added this minor update to Section 3.4.1. I am also reviewing the two 
chapters from Bob Glushko's book to expand the description herein.  [1] 
I'll post that later today.

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Section 3.4.1 Business Collaborations
Change from:
A Business Collaboration is a set of Business Activities executing 
Business Transactions between business partners. Each business partner 
plays one or more abstract partner roles in the Business Collaboration. 
The state of the Business Collaboration is logical between the parties 
interacting in a peer-to-peer rather than a controlled environment. The 
virtual state of the Business Collaboration lies with the involved 
partners.

Change to:
A Business Collaboration is a set of Business Activities executing 
Business Transactions between business partners or collaborating 
parties. Each business partner plays one or more abstract partner roles 
in the Business Collaboration. The state of the Business Collaboration 
is logical between the parties interacting in a peer-to-peer rather than 
a controlled environment. The virtual state of the Business 
Collaboration lies with the involved partners.  Peer-to-peer 
collaboration may involve business partners as well as distributed 
collaborating parties. For the latter, one example may be 
cross-organizational collaboration between parties involved in technical 
publishing where the nested, complex activities may be required to 
support an authoring process.
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[1]  Chapter 9-10.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eglushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch9_FINAL.pdf
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eglushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch10_FINAL.pdf