Architecture for the Design and Agent-Based Implementation of Cross-Organizational Business Processes

Kahl, Timo; Zinnikus, Ingo; Roser, Stephan; Hahn, Christian; Ziemann, Jörg; Müller, Jörg P.; Fischer, Klaus

doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-858-6_21

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“…TRABAJOS RELACIONADOS El desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas para la ejecución de procesos colaborativos mediante plataformas basadas en agentes de software, utilizando en algunos casos los principios de MDD [32][33][34], se han estudiado previamente en algunos trabajos de investigación. En [32] se describe un enfoque para el diseño y ejecución de procesos colaborativos basados en una arquitectura de agentes de software, utilizando los principios de MDD. Los procesos privados son modelados en el nivel de negocio y en un nivel técnico se introduce un nivel de abstracción adicional entre los procesos privados y los procesos colaborativos, llamado vista de procesos.…”

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Software Agents for Management Dynamic Inter-Organizational Collaborations

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Chiotti²,

Villarreal³

2014

IEEE Latin Am. Trans.

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The globalization, modern markets, as well as new organizational management philosophies and advances in Information and Communications Technologies, encourage organizations to establish collaboration networks or interorganizational collaborations. In this paper we propose a technology solution based on software agents which allows supporting the management of collaborative business processes in environments dynamic inter-organizational collaborations. First, we propose a software agent platform that integrates in agent specification's the notions of Belief-Desire-Intention agent architecture with functionalities of process-aware information systems. The platform enables organizations to negotiate collaborations agreements in electronic format to establish dynamic inter-organizational collaborations and define the collaborative processes to be executed. Second, we propose a methodology that includes methods based on Model-Driven Development, which enable the generation of executable process models and the code of process-oriented agents, derived from conceptual models of collaborative processes. This methodology and methods are implemented and automated by software agents that enable the generations of these implementation artifacts, at run-time of the platform. Therefore, the platform enables the automatic generation of the technology solution that requires each organization to execute the agreed collaborative processes, where the generated artifacts are built and initialized in the platform, allowing the implementation and execution of these processes. In this way, the proposed agent-based platform allows to establish collaboration among heterogeneous and autonomous organizations focusing in the process-oriented integration.

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Software Agents for Management Dynamic Inter-Organizational Collaborations

Tello-Leal

Chiotti²,

Villarreal³

2014

IEEE Latin Am. Trans.

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“…There are several approaches that exploit the benefits of software agents in the execution of the collaborative business processes. In (Kahl et al, 2007), a complete architecture for the design and agent-based implementation of cross-organizational business processes was defined. The principles of MDA are applied in three levels: business, technical, and execution.…”

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AGENTS FOR MANAGING BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS INTERACTIONS - Software Agents for Managing Business-to-Business Collaborations

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Chiotti

Villarreal

2011

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

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Current market opportunities and the growth of new Internet technologies encourage organizations to dynamically establish Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations. B2B interactions are carried out by executing collaborative business processes among the parties. In this work we propose B2B collaboration agents for managing B2B interactions that allow organizations to dynamically establish collaborations and execute collaborative processes with their partners. The planning and execution of the actions of the agents that execute collaborative processes are driven by a Petri Net engine embedded in these agents. The role an organization fulfills in a collaborative process is represented by a high-level Petri Net model which is used to drive the behavior of the B2B collaboration agents representing the organization. Moreover, interaction protocols representing collaborative processes are executed by these agents without the need for protocols defined at design-time. Finally, an implementation of the B2B agents is presented.

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