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Cross-organisational workflow enactment via progressive linking by run-time agents

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posted on 2010-03-02, 10:23 authored by Xi Chen, Paul Chung
Driven by popular adoptions of workflow and requirements from the practice of virtual enterprise (VE), research in workflow interoperability is currently on the increase. Nonetheless, it is still in its early stage compared with the maturity of individual workflow technology. Some attempts have been tried, however results are not satisfactory especially in a VE context, where many of the partnerships are dynamic and temporary. Reasons include the rigidity and high initial coordination cost inherently associated with top-down modelling and enactment approaches. Therefore, this paper proposes a bottom-up and WfMS 1 Keywords: Multi-Agent Systems, Workflow Interoperability, Virtual Enterprise -independent approach towards cross-organisational workflow enactment, which is via progressive linking enabled by run-time agents. This is expected to pave the way for further cross-organisational workflow needs.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Computer Science

Citation

CHEN, X. and CHUNG, P.W.H., 2006. Cross-organisational workflow enactment via progressive linking by run-time agents. IN: International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE'06), Annecy, France, June 27-30.

Publisher

© Springer-Verlag

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2006

Notes

This is a conference paper [© Springer-Verlag], further details can be obtained:- http://esia2.univ-savoie.fr/conf-iea-aie/

ISBN

9783540354536

Book series

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence;Vol. 4031

Language

  • en