An agent-based approach for supporting cross-enterprise workflows

Author

Zeng, Liangzhao ; Ngu, Anne ; Bentallah, B. ; Dell, Milton O.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., New South Wales Univ., Kensington, NSW, Australia

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

130

Abstract

In order to support global competitiveness and rapid market responsiveness, virtual enterprises need to efficiently integrate different organization´s workflows to provide customized services. Currently, most of the integrations are case based which have high setup cost and involve time consuming low level programming. Cross-enterprise workflow that is able to streamline and coordinate business processes across organizations in dynamic Web environment provides a low cost and flexible solution. We develop an agent based cross-enterprise workflow management system (WFMS) architecture which can dynamically integrate the workflows and compose a workflow execution community customized to different workflow specifications

Keywords

business communication; electronic commerce; information resources; software agents; workflow management software; WFMS architecture; agent based approach; agent based cross-enterprise workflow management system; business processes; cross-enterprise workflow support; customized services; dynamic Web environment; global competitiveness; low level programming; rapid market responsiveness; setup cost; virtual enterprises; workflow execution community; workflow specifications; Aerodynamics; Australia; Business process re-engineering; Computer science; Costs; Delay; Finance; Manufacturing processes; Supply chains; Virtual enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database Conference, 2001. ADC 2001. Proceedings. 12th Australasian

Conference_Location

Gold Coast, Qld.

ISSN

1530-0919

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0966-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ADC.2001.904473

Filename

904473