Title :
An agent-based approach for supporting cross-enterprise workflows
Author :
Zeng, Liangzhao ; Ngu, Anne ; Bentallah, B. ; Dell, Milton O.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., New South Wales Univ., Kensington, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
In order to support global competitiveness and rapid market responsiveness, virtual enterprises need to efficiently integrate different organization´s workflows to provide customized services. Currently, most of the integrations are case based which have high setup cost and involve time consuming low level programming. Cross-enterprise workflow that is able to streamline and coordinate business processes across organizations in dynamic Web environment provides a low cost and flexible solution. We develop an agent based cross-enterprise workflow management system (WFMS) architecture which can dynamically integrate the workflows and compose a workflow execution community customized to different workflow specifications
Keywords :
business communication; electronic commerce; information resources; software agents; workflow management software; WFMS architecture; agent based approach; agent based cross-enterprise workflow management system; business processes; cross-enterprise workflow support; customized services; dynamic Web environment; global competitiveness; low level programming; rapid market responsiveness; setup cost; virtual enterprises; workflow execution community; workflow specifications; Aerodynamics; Australia; Business process re-engineering; Computer science; Costs; Delay; Finance; Manufacturing processes; Supply chains; Virtual enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
Database Conference, 2001. ADC 2001. Proceedings. 12th Australasian
Conference_Location :
Gold Coast, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0966-5
DOI :
10.1109/ADC.2001.904473
