An Ontological Model of an Information System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
A general, yet useful theory of information systems
Communications of the AIS
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Aris-Business Process Modeling
The New Software Engineering
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Cross-organizational workflow integration using contracts
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Formal modeling and electronic commerce
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
IEEE Internet Computing
Agent-based e-marketplace system for more fair and efficient transaction
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Agents and e-commerce business models
Research Commentary: Workflow Management Issues in e-Business
Information Systems Research
A Helix-Spindle model for ontological engineering
Communications of the ACM - Information cities
Communications of the ACM - 3d hard copy
A language/action perspective on the design of cooperative work
Human-Computer Interaction
Using multi-agent simulation and learning to design new businessprocesses
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Intelligent agent based framework for manufacturing systems control
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Creation of environmental health information system for public health service: A pilot study
Information Systems Frontiers
An approach to enterprise process dynamic modeling supporting enterprise process evolution
Information Systems Frontiers
Information Systems Frontiers
Advances in enterprise information systems
Information Systems Frontiers
Information Systems Frontiers
Parameter mapping and data transformation for engineering application integration
Information Systems Frontiers
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
The measurement of perceived ontological deficiencies of conceptual modeling grammars
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Building ontology based knowledge maps to assist business process re-engineering
Decision Support Systems
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The proliferation of newer agile integrative business information systems (IBIS) environments that use the software agent and the multiagent systems paradigms has created the need for a common and well-accepted conceptual modeling grammar that can be used to efficiently, precisely, and unambiguously, model agile IBIS systems at the conceptual level. In this paper, we propose a conceptual modeling grammar termed Agile Integration Modeling Language (AIML) based on established ontological foundation for the multiagent-based integrative business information systems (MIBIS) universe. The AIML grammar provides adequate and precise constructs and semantics for modeling agile integration among participating work systems in terms of quickly building and dismantling dynamic collaboration relationships among them to respond to fast-changing market needs. The AIML grammar is defined as a formal model using Extended BNF and first order logic, and is elaborated using a running example in the paper. The grammar is also evaluated in terms of its syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic qualities and is found to exhibit a high degree of quality on all these three dimensions. In particular, the pragmatic quality of AIML measured in terms of grammar complexity evaluated using complexity metrics indicates that AIML is much easier to learn and use as compared to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for modeling agile integration of work systems in organizations.