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In this paper we introduce Business Conversations as a highlevel software structuring concept for distributed systems where multiple autonomous agents (possibly in different organizational units) have to coordinate their long-term activities towards the fulfillment of a cooperative task. We first motivate Business Conversations as a system model suitable for the description of human-human, human-software as well as software-software cooperation. We then explain why we consider this model be more suitable for the description o organizational cooperative work than software-centered object models. The core concepts of the Business Conversation model axe described using an object-oriented model. Finally, we report on our experience gained building a prototypical agent programming framework with Business Conversations for agent coordination based on mobile and persistent threads as provided by the persistent programming language Tycoon.
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Matthes, F. (1998). Business conversations: A high-level system model for agent coordination. In: Cluet, S., Hull, R. (eds) Database Programming Languages. DBPL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64823-2_20
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