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Subject-Oriented Modeling and Execution of Multi-agent Business Processes.
Albert Fleischmann,Udo Kannengiesser,Werner Schmidt,Christian Stary +3 more
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In this paper, an aligned meta-model is presented for MASs and the operational benefits of MASs are illustrated with examples from business process applications, and the authors provide an alignment of the model and its operational benefits with real-world examples.Abstract:
This paper addresses a gap in handling multi-agent business processes that has prevented their larger-scale adoption in practice: the lack of a conceptual modeling approach that is easily understandable by business domain experts and sufficiently formal for direct transformation into executable systems. The emerging paradigm of subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM), which has been evaluated through academic research and is increasingly deployed in commercial applications, has the potential to augment multi-agent system (MAS) models with a process-centric layer that preserves autonomy and concurrent interaction of agents as essential system characteristics. In this paper we provide an aligned meta-model and illustrate its operational benefits with examples from business process applications.read more
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Subject-Oriented Business Process Management
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Challenges and current developments for Sensing, Smart and Sustainable Enterprise Systems
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An end-user approach to business process modeling
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Using business process models for the specification of manufacturing operations
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Towards Agent-Based Smart Factories: A Subject-Oriented Modeling Approach
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TL;DR: In this paper, a generic representation of agents, derived from the Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) ontology, is proposed for the flexible assignment of agents to processes at runtime.
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