Intelligent Business Transaction Agents for Cross-Organizational Workflow Definition and Execution

Abstract

Abstract. Business organizations seldom work in isolation; effective interaction and cooperation between different organizations is essential for the success of any organization. In order to work together, organizations must have compatible workflows. This paper proposes a framework for automatically creating compatible workflows from high level requirements given by organizations that intend to work together. The framework uses intelligent agents [1] for the creation and execution of workflows. The proposed framework is different from existing systems as they focus on collaboration by modifying existing workflows. The proposed framework will enable organizations to avoid the time consuming task of creating a workflow and then ensuring that it is compatible with every organization it interacts with.

Interaction protocols for cross-organisational workflows

“…In order to improve the efficiency in these activities, the focus of workflow modelling has gradually shifted to process driven services, in order to exploit service oriented architectures and web service architectures (Chen and Yang (2005); Saleem et al (2010); Sirin et al (2003Sirin et al ( , 2004; Wang et al (2006)). …”

“…Saleem et al (Saleem et al (2010)) developed a framework that uses intelligent agents to create compatible workflows for multiple collaborating organisations. Their developed framework uses SHOP2 for planning.…”