An Agent-based B2B Collaboration Platform for Executing Collaborative Business Processes
Abstract
Nowadays, organizations estab lish
Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations with their business partne rs.
Inter-organizational collaboration is carried out through the execution
of collaborative business processes. Organizations are requiring and
under going the setting up of dynamic B2B collaborations, instead of
conducting fa ce-to-face negotiations and agreements for executing
collaborative processes. Th is implies that business partners, maybe
without a previous relationship, agree dynamically on the execution of
collaborative processes based on predefined models of these processes.
In this work, we propose an B2B collaboration platform which provides
agent-based systems and interaction mechanisms in order to enable
organizations to establish dynamic agreements with their partners and
carry out the decentralized execution of collaborative processes. Agents
use models of collaborative processes to enact them in a dynamic way.
The role an organization performs in a collaborative process is
translated into a Petri Net model that a collaboration agent interpret
to execute the process.
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