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Communications of the ACM
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
IEEE Internet Computing
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AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A semantic approach for designing business protocols
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
An agent-based supply-chain management
CTS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Collaborative technologies and systems
A semantic approach for designing e-business protocols
SWSWPC'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition
Predicting exceptions in agent-based supply-chains
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
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This paper explores a linguistic approach to coordination modeling as a formal basis for supply-chain management (SCM) in manufacturing. The approach promotes the interchange of standard documents: enterprises need only describe their supply processes using OAG business object documents and UML interaction diagrams. Our methodology and tools analyze the documents and interactions in terms of four linguistic primitives and convert the diagrams into specifications and implementations of software agents. The agents then cooperate in automating the resultant supply chain. We evaluate our methodology in the context of several industrial scenarios. We conclude that supply-chain automation using software-agent technology is feasible.