DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS PROCESSES IN OPEN AGENT ENVIRONMENTS

Christine Reese, Kolja Markwardt, Sven Offermann, Daniel Moldt

2006

Abstract

In the context of multi-agent systems, a general aim is the inter-operability of agents. One problem remaining unsolved is the control of processes between agents. The need for workflow technology to support business processes on the level of agents becomes obvious. We provide concepts for distributed WFMS where the distribution is realised within the architecture. Given the formal background of Petri nets, this work is innovative regarding the interplay of agent and workflow technologies.

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Reese C., Markwardt K., Offermann S. and Moldt D. (2006). DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS PROCESSES IN OPEN AGENT ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-44-3, pages 81-86. DOI: 10.5220/0002460900810086


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Christine Reese and Kolja Markwardt and Sven Offermann and Daniel Moldt},
title={DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS PROCESSES IN OPEN AGENT ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={81-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002460900810086},
isbn={978-972-8865-44-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS PROCESSES IN OPEN AGENT ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-972-8865-44-3
AU - Reese C.
AU - Markwardt K.
AU - Offermann S.
AU - Moldt D.
PY - 2006
SP - 81
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0002460900810086