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Cross Organisational Workflow Co-ordinated by Software Agents

We assert that a layer of software agents, that co-ordinate the distribution of work via negotiation, is the proper software abstraction for the development of cross-organisational workflow management systems. We support our assertion by describing: the use of software agents to provision distributed workflows; the role of agents to facilitate workflow interoperability; agent-based techniques f...

Interaction protocols for cross-organisational workflows

Workflow technologies are widely used in industry and commerce to assist in the specification, execution and completion of well defined processes within organisations. As industrial and commercial relations have evolved, based on advances on information and communications technologies, cross-organisational workflow integration has become an important issue. Since organisations can have very dif...

Cross-Organisational Workflow Enactment Via Progressive Linking by Run-Time Agents

DECS: A System for Decentralised Coordination of Web Services

Web Services technology is becoming the de-facto standard for integration of legacy applications within an organisation and for cross organisation enterprise application integration. Much work has gone into specifying Web Services functionality using workflow like techniques and production of software to enact such descriptions. However, most of this software relies on one central server to ena...

A process-view approach for cross-organizational workflows management

1474-0346/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.aei.2010.01.001 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (L. Gao Workflow management for cross-organizational business processes presents a significant challenge recently. The development and implementation of new methodologies and technologies are imperative to tackle this challenge. The process-view appro...