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Industry processes are the trans-corporate business processes required to support the e-business environment. Industry process reengineering is the re-engineering of trans-corporate business processes as electronically managed processes. Industry process re-engineering is business process re-engineering on a massively distributed scale. Industry processes will not be restricted to routine workflows that follow a moreor- less fixed path; they will include complex processes for which their future path may be unknown at each stage in their existence. So a management system for industry processes should be both highly scalable and should be able to deal with such complex processes. A multiagent process management system is described that can manage processes of high complexity. This system is built from interacting autonomous components so achieving system scalability.
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Debenham, J. (2002). Agents for Industry Process Management. In: Hameurlain, A., Cicchetti, R., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46146-9_47
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