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An Agent-Based Collaborative Emergent Process Management System

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems II (AOIS 2004)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3508))

Abstract

An emergent process is a process whose goal and activities to achieve the goal are unable to be specified in advance but emerge over time as knowledge gained from the activities performed earlier shapes the subsequent goal and activities. Collaborative emergent process management needs functions to support the representation and storage of emergent process instances, process automation and knowledge sharing. Traditional process management systems lack the full functionality of collaborative emergent process management. Our research provides an agent-based collaborative emergent process management system that provides the full functionality needed for managing emergent process instances collaboratively. This paper presents the system including the management model, system architecture, major components, key modules and an application.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, POBox 123, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Aizhong Lin, Igor Hawryszkiewycz & Brian Henderson-Sellers

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  1. DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies, European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 29, level 4, office 49, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    Paolo Bresciani

  2. DISI, University of Trento, 38100, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Giorgini

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000, Broadway, NSW, Australia

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

  4. School of Information Management and Technology Management, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Graham Low

  5. Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

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Lin, A., Hawryszkiewycz, I., Henderson-Sellers, B. (2005). An Agent-Based Collaborative Emergent Process Management System. In: Bresciani, P., Giorgini, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems II. AOIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426714_1

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