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International Workshop on Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability

International Workshop on Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability

ATOP 2005, ATOP 2008: Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability pp 197–219Cite as

Agent Interaction Modeling Based on Product-Centric Data: A Formal Method to Improve Enterprise Interoperability

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 25))

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This paper shows how companies can use product-centric data to locally represent the interactions with and between their partners. An agent-based interaction modeling language is used to capture these interactions graphically and formally. Moreover, a formal method is introduced that enables partners to automatically construct a global interaction diagram from their local interaction representations. This global interaction diagram improves enterprise interoperability, since it increases overall process visibility. A simple process example is used to illustrate the approach.

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  1. Department of Business & ICT, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Landleven 5, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Marco Stuit & Gerben G. Meyer

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  1. DFKI GmbH Saarbrücken, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Germany

    Klaus Fischer

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität Clausthal, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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  3. Oslo Software, Inc., 3723 Haven Avenue, CA 94025, Menlo Park, USA

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Stuit, M., Meyer, G.G. (2009). Agent Interaction Modeling Based on Product-Centric Data: A Formal Method to Improve Enterprise Interoperability. In: Fischer, K., Müller, J.P., Odell, J., Berre, A.J. (eds) Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability. ATOP ATOP 2005 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01668-4_11

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