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A Multi-perspective Methodology for Modelling Inter-enterprise Business Processes

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Conceptual Modeling for New Information Systems Technologies (ER 2001)

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We propose an agent-oriented methodology for modelling business processes between enterprises that consists of the steps of analysis and design. The analysis starts by modelling intentional dependencies between the actors of the problem domain at hand, and continues by modelling intentional relationships that are internal to the actors, such as task decomposition links. In the design, intentional dependencies between the actors are transformed to commitment-based models of interactions between the agents. Models of tasks performed by the actors, obtained as a result of means-ends analysis, are transformed to activities and reaction rules, defining the behaviours of agents. The methodology is evaluated by using the case study of an electronic advertising process in newspapers.

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  1. VTT Information Technology (Technical Research Centre of Finland), P.O.Box 1201, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland

    Kuldar Taveter

  2. Department of Informatics, Tallinn Technical University, Raja 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia

    Kuldar Taveter

  3. Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600, MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Gerd Wagner

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  1. Graduate school of environment and information sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Hiroshi Arisawa

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

  3. SICE Computer Networking, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA

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  4. University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Taveter, K., Wagner, G. (2002). A Multi-perspective Methodology for Modelling Inter-enterprise Business Processes. In: Arisawa, H., Kambayashi, Y., Kumar, V., Mayr, H.C., Hunt, I. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for New Information Systems Technologies. ER 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46140-X_31

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