Title :
Supporting intercultural collaboration: an agent coordination workflow model
Author :
Lin, Donghui ; Zhu, Cheng ; Ding, Peng ; Sheng, Huanye
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Abstract :
Workflow management has already been worldwide accepted due to its capability to make organizations model and control work processes effectively and efficiently in a distributed environment. Currently, most of the workflow management systems (WfMSs) are lack of a coordination mechanism across different organizations. We first propose an intercultural collaboration workflow process definition and then propose an agent coordination workflow model based on the consideration of cultural factors in intercultural collaboration work process modeling.
Keywords :
groupware; organisational aspects; software agents; workflow management software; agent coordination workflow model; distributed environment; intercultural collaboration; work process modeling; workflow management system; Automatic control; Automation; Collaborative work; Computer science; Cultural differences; Distributed computing; Engineering management; Environmental management; Process control; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Services Computing, 2004. (SCC 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2225-4
DOI :
10.1109/SCC.2004.1358079