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A knowledge-driven process is guided by its ‘process knowledge’ and ‘perfonnance knowledge’. The goal of a knowledge-driven process may not be fixed and may mutate. Knowledge-driven processes are a characteristic of emergent processes. Emergent processes are business processes that are not predefined and are ad hoc. Process knowledge typically contains a substantial component of general knowledge and it is generally infeasible to build a system that represents it. A multiagent process management system provides substantial support for knowledge-driven processes. This system assists the users to manage these processes. The agents negotiate with each other to distribute the responsibility for managing sub-processes. Emergent processes may have goal-directed sub-processes if this is so then these sub-processes are completely managed by this system.
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Debenham, J. (2001). Supporting knowledge-driven processes in a multiagent process management system. In: Bramer, M., Preece, A., Coenen, F. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVII. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0269-4_20
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