Interorganizational workflow execution based on process agents and ECA rules

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1335-1342

  Lin, Donghui ^a   Sheng, Huanye ^b   Ishida, Toru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ECA rules; Interorganizational workflow; Process agent; Workflow execution

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT INTERACTION PROTOCOLS; BLOCK BASED; ECA RULE; GRAPH-BASED; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOW; INTERNAL STATE; STATE TRANSITIONS; WORKFLOW EXECUTION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 67049129639     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.9.1335     Document Type: Article

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