An agent-based architecture for the information technology management

Zarour, Nacer Eddine; Seinturier, Lionel; Boufaïda, Mahmoud; Estraillier, Pascal

doi:10.1109/icmit.2000.916795

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“…VE typically requires combining the core competencies of several autonomous and heterogeneous enterprises in a new agile and flexible enterprise, addressing specific and original industrial business targets (Rocha and Oliveira, 1999). In order to reach these targets, we have developed an agent-based architecture, named DAArACHE 1 (Zarour et al, 2000a), supporting a VE environment. In this architecture an agent can be an information system, a workflow, a human or any combination of them depending on the level of automation.…”

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“…sending of messages, Agent Communication Language). In our context, the characteristics of an agent that can be a workflow, person, an information system or any combination of them include autonomy, social ability, and pro-activity (Zarour et al, 2000a). Our agents are also informational since they perform the role of managing, manipulating or collecting information from many distributed sources.…”

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Open environments like the Internet or corporate intranets enable a large number of interested enterprises to access, filter, process, and present information on an as-needed basis. These environments support modern applications, such as virtual enterprises and inter-organizational workflow management systems, which involve a number of heterogeneous resources, services, and processes. However, any execution of a virtual enterprise system would yield to disjoining and error-prone behavior without appropriate techniques to coordinate the various business processes. This paper reports on the design and implementation of a flexible agent-based framework for supporting the coordination of virtual enterprises and workflow management systems. The paper also shows how an agent coordination infrastructure, which is explained by social constraints, can impact on the engineering of highly dynamic virtual enterprises and workflow management systems by presenting a simple case study.

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Section: An Infrastructure For Vementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%