MANAGING E-MARKET TRANSACTION PROCESSES - Exploring the limits of process management with a multiagent system

John Debenham

2004

Abstract

Knowledge-driven processes are business processes whose execution is determined by the prior knowledge of the agents involved and by the knowledge that emerges during a process instance. They are characteristic of emergent business processes. The amount of process knowledge that is relevant to a knowledge-driven process can be enormous and may include common sense knowledge. If a process’ knowledge can not be represented feasibly then that process can not be managed; although its execution may be partially supported. In an e-market domain, the majority of transactions, including requests for advice and information, are knowledge-driven processes for which the knowledge base is the Internet, and so representing the knowledge is not an issue. These processes are managed by a multiagent system that manages the extraction of knowledge from this base using a suite of data mining bots.

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Debenham J. (2004). MANAGING E-MARKET TRANSACTION PROCESSES - Exploring the limits of process management with a multiagent system . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 322-330. DOI: 10.5220/0002597203220330


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@conference{iceis04,
author={John Debenham},
title={MANAGING E-MARKET TRANSACTION PROCESSES - Exploring the limits of process management with a multiagent system},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={322-330},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002597203220330},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - MANAGING E-MARKET TRANSACTION PROCESSES - Exploring the limits of process management with a multiagent system
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Debenham J.
PY - 2004
SP - 322
EP - 330
DO - 10.5220/0002597203220330