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With the change of EU regulations in the automotive market in 2002, multi-brand car dealers became possible. Despite the high economical expectations connected with them, the existing IT infrastructure does not provide satisfying support for these changes as it had been developed independently by each brand for many years. In this paper, we describe a solution which supports rapid prototyping by combining a model-driven framework for cross-organisational service-oriented architectures (SOA) with an agent-based approach for flexible process execution. We discuss advantages of agent-based SOAs and summarize the lessons learned.
The work published in this paper is (partly) funded by the E.C. through the ATHENA IP. It does not represent the view of E.C. or the ATHENA consortium, and authors are solely responsible for the paper’s content.
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Zinnikus, I., Hahn, C., Klein, M., Fischer, K. (2007). An Agent-Based, Model-Driven Approach for Enabling Interoperability in the Area of Multi-brand Vehicle Configuration. In: Krämer, B.J., Lin, KJ., Narasimhan, P. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2007. ICSOC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4749. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74974-5_27
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