Fundamentals of software engineering
Fundamentals of software engineering
Supporting workflow cooperation within and across organizations
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 1
Coordination models: a guided tour
Coordination of Internet agents
Inter-organizational workflows for enterprise coordination
Coordination of Internet agents
A formal model of open agent societies
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
An agent-based approach for supporting cross-enterprise workflows
ADC '01 Proceedings of the 12th Australasian database conference
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Protocol Moderators as Active Middle-Agents in Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards Adaptive Workflow Enactment Using Multiagent Systems
Information Technology and Management
Agent-Based Negotiation Between Partners in Loose Inter-Organizational Workflow
IAT '05 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Integrating Web Services with Agent Based Workflow Management System (WfMS)
WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
An Agent-based Framework for Integrating Workflows and Web Services
WETICE '05 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprise
Agent-oriented compositional approaches to services-based cross-organizational workflow
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
The view-based approach to dynamic inter-organizational workflow cooperation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Automated semantic web service discovery with OWLS-MX
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Organizational Petri Nets for protocol design and enactment
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
A protocol ontology for inter-organizational workflow coordination
ADBIS'07 Proceedings of the 11th East European conference on Advances in databases and information systems
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
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Inter-Organizational Workflow (IOW) aims at supporting the collaboration between several autonomous and heterogeneous business processes, distributed over different enterprises or organizations. Coordination of these processes is a fundamental issue that has been mainly addressed in a static context, but it still remains open in a dynamic one such as the Internet in which IOW applications are more and more enacted nowadays. In such a context, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are known to be a natural solution for modeling IOW since they provide adequate abstractions and specific mediators to cope with IOW coordination. Consequently, this paper provides an agent-based model for coordinating business processes involved in a dynamic IOW. This model is a triplet (E, M, R). E is the set of coordinated entities. It corresponds to the different business processes that may be published, discovered or deployed by IOW partners. M is the media supporting coordination. It is a multi-agent architecture compliant with the Workflow Management Coalition architecture and integrating specific components devoted to coordination issues. Finally, R is the set of rules governing the coordination. In our context, R is described through an organizational model aiming at structuring the interaction among the coordinated entities and the different components of the architecture.