Agent-Based Inter-Organizational Workflow Management System

Authors:
Paulo Leitão;João Mendes
Affiliations:
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Quinta Santa Apolónia, Apartado 1134, P-5301-857 Bragança, Portugal;Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Quinta Santa Apolónia, Apartado 1134, P-5301-857 Bragança, Portugal
Venue:
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

An Electronic Institution is a computational framework that provides a set of services supporting the lifecycle of Virtual Organizations. In a virtual organization, different business partners cooperate in order to achieve a common goal (the established contract), being the coordination of the corresponding inter-organizational workflow an important issue. This paper describes an inter-organizational workflow management architecture, based in multi-agent systems principles, aiming to orchestrate the contract execution and to obtain feedback from the shop floor level. Aiming to validate its correctness and applicability, a special focus is devoted to its implementation, using the JADE agent development framework, and its operation under different scenarios.