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Emergent processes are non-routine business processes whose execution is guided by the knowledge that emerges during a process instance. Managing emergent processes needs an intelligent agent that is guided not by a process goal, but by a continual in-flow of information, where the integrity of each chunk of information may be uncertain.
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Debenham, J., Simoff, S. (2006). Managing Emergent Processes. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11892960_28
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