Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
KidSim: programming agents without a programming language
Communications of the ACM
COACH: a teaching agent that learns
Communications of the ACM
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Middleware: a model for distributed system services
Communications of the ACM
Developing intelligent agents for distributed systems: exploring architecture, technologies, & applications
Information infrastructure for electronic virtual organization management
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intranets and intranetworking
Communications of the ACM
An XML framework for agent-based E-commerce
Communications of the ACM
Interoperation support for electronic business
Communications of the ACM
GroupWare, Workflow and Intranets: Reengineering the Enterprise with Collaborative Software
GroupWare, Workflow and Intranets: Reengineering the Enterprise with Collaborative Software
Workflow Strategies
XML: Data's Universal Language
IT Professional
Intelligent Agents on the Internet: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
A Multi-Agent System for Distributed Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web
WET-ICE '97 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
The role of information technology in organization design
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and organization design
Domain specific languages for ad hoc distributed applications
DSL'97 Proceedings of the Conference on Domain-Specific Languages on Conference on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL), 1997
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Specialised business-to-business Internet electronic markets deliver substantial value to companies including greater liquidity, better pricing, and faster transactions. The electronic marketplace sits on the intersection between supply chain and demand chain and makes it the business collaborative platform where resource allocation optimising and efficiency improving occurs simultaneously. The electronic marketplaces can help companies reduce cost structures by accessing stable venues with market pricing to fulfil short-term commodity needs. However, the variances in business processes and data format between trading partners cause overhead cost and time consumption. This paper proposes an agent-based framework to integrate processes between businesses and the electronic marketplace. This framework is composed of workflow systems, collaborative agents, Common Business Language, and electronic marketplace service platform. The business vocabularies and inter-partner processes used to communicate between trading partners are defined as an XML-based format. The result of this framework provides three functions including: (1) process executing; (2) message transforming; and (3) business transactions tracking and management. Trading partners can integrate inter-organisational processes without dramatically rewriting their legacy system.