Patent ID: 8175907

Claim:
A system for collaborating virtual organization participants of different administrative domains in a workflow process, the system comprising: a membership module for sending information regarding a membership state for each of the participants, the membership state related to the administrative domain of the participant, receiving definitions of activities of the workflow process and a lifecycle state of each of the activities, and managing the membership state for each of the participants with respect to the lifecycle states of the activities of the workflow process; and an event module for sending the definitions of the activities of the workflow process and the lifecycle state of each of the activities, receiving the information regarding the membership state of the participants, correlating the activities of the workflow process with respect to the membership state of each of the participants, detecting a change in a membership state of one of the participants that prevents completion of one of the activities of the workflow process, and dissolving the virtual organization in response to the detected change, wherein the membership module and the event module are executed via at least one processor, and the membership module and the event module dynamically exchange information relating to changes in the participants and the activities of the workflow process.