ICATPN '97 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
A Workflow Change Is a Workflow
Business Process Management, Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies
An Introduction to the Theoretical Aspects of Coloured Petri Nets
A Decade of Concurrency, Reflections and Perspectives, REX School/Symposium
Modelling and executing complex and dynamic business processes by reification of agent interactions
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Anticipations, Brains, Individual and Social Behavior: An Introduction to Anticipatory Systems
Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
Agent Behavior Alignment: A Mechanism to Overcome Problems in Agent Interactions During Runtime
CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
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In this paper we present a conceptualization and a formalization to define agents' behaviors (as exhibited in agent to agent interactions), via an extension of Petri Nets, and show how behaviors of different agents can be aligned. We explain why these agents can be considered anticipatory, and the link between Business Information Systems and anticipatory systems is elaborated. We show that alignment is a state anticipatory mechanism, where predictions about future states directly influence current behavioral decision making. This results in faster and more reliable interaction execution. Also, alignment provides a mechanism for more direct behavioral learning. We investigated three manners of alignment, individual on-the-fly alignment, pre-interaction alignment, and alignment with the intervention of a third party. This paper explains in some detail how alignment on-the-fly is realized using alignment policies. The features of the other two kinds of alignment are discussed, and future directions for research are pointed out.