Agent interaction modeling based on product-centric data: A formal method to improve enterprise interoperability

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 25 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 197-219

  Stuit, Marco ^a   Meyer, Gerben G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agents; Business process modeling; Enterprise interoperability; Global and local process representations; Interaction structuring; Product centric data

Indexed keywords

FORMAL METHODS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; ENTERPRISE INTEROPERABILITY; GLOBAL AND LOCAL PROCESS REPRESENTATIONS; INTERACTION STRUCTURING; PRODUCT-CENTRIC DATA;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 67249102936     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01668-4_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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