A Multi-agent System for Cross-Organizational Workflows Management Based on Process-View

Authors:
Ping Jiang;Xinyu Shao;Liang Gao;Zhenfeng Yang
Affiliations:
Department of Industrial & Manufacturing System Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China;Department of Industrial & Manufacturing System Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China;Department of Industrial & Manufacturing System Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China;Department of Industrial & Manufacturing System Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China
Venue:
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part III: ICCS 2007
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Workflow interoperability across enterprises boundaries presents a significant challenge recently. Process-view provides a promising way to cross-organizational workflows design. A multi-agent system combined with Petri net based process-view approach is proposed to facilitate cross-organizational workflows management. Within this multi-agent system, a Petri net algebra model and a character string mapping algorithm are proposed to automate the mapping from a Petri net workflow model to a process-view workflow model; the synchronization points are added to integrated process-view workflow models to coordinate the execution of cross-organizational workflow instances.