Autonomous Agent Enhanced Workspace (AAEW) for Extended Enterprise (E2) collaboration

Extended Enterprise (E2) and its benefits have been widely discussed while the discussion on extending implications of E2 for technological exploitation is limited. To bring the concept of E2 into the design and development of Inter-organizational System (IOS), information technologies do take an indispensable role in pursuing seamless information exchange, business processes automation, resilient job dispatching and fulfillment amongst enterprises. This paper articulates the conceptual design of Autonomous Agent Enhanced Workspace (AAEW) as one of the technology enablers to support inter-organization collaborations in an E2 context.