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Web Service Interfaces for Inter-organisational Business Processes An Infrastructure for Automated Reconciliation Giacomo Piccinelli Wolfgang Emmerich Christian Zirpins, Kevin Schütt Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science (VSIS) Stoke Gifford Park University College London University of Hamburg Bristol BS34 8QZ, UK Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Hamburg, Germany gicomo_piccinelli@ w.emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk zirpins@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Abstract From its early appearance three years ago, the electronic service model has been gaining increasing For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the consensus as a way to tackle the complexity of e-business assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of systems and solutions. The initial history of the Internet interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the saw technology come first, and business applications back-end, with systems characterised by heterogeneous follow. In the case of electronic services, the business mix of applications and business processes. Integration objectives came first. Electronic services are about can be complex and expensive, as systems evolve more in business processes a