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E-Business Process Modelling with Finite State Machine Based Service Agents

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV (CSCWD 2007)

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Nowadays organisations are willing to outsource their business processes as services and make them accesible via the Web. In doing so, they can dynamically combine individual services to their service applications. However, unless the data on the Web can be meaningfully shared and is interpretable, this objective cannot be realised. It is believed that the vision of the Web can only be realised through proliferation of well-known ontologies describing different domains. Ontologies, as a foundation of service applications, is investigated in the paper. In order to cope with the distributed computing across a wide range of domains from e-economy to e-science and e-government, agent technologies are applied to deal with service agents’ on and off and to provide semantic support for implementation of complex e-business applications. Finite state machines (FSM) have been examined to facilitate process automation. Our approach targets at dynamic information sharing and reuse in e-business applications. Finally, our ontological approach is illustrated by employing FSM agents in a Web environment.

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  1. CSIRO ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

    Li Li

  2. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia

    Yun Yang

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  1. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, N6G 4X8, London, Ontario, Canada

    Weiming Shen

  2. School of Information Systems, Faculty of Business University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

    Jianming Yong

  3. Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn, PO Box 218, 3122, Melbourne, Australia

    Yun Yang

  4. Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, 60205, Compiègne, France

    Jean-Paul A. Barthès

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China

    Junzhou Luo

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Li, L., Yang, Y. (2008). E-Business Process Modelling with Finite State Machine Based Service Agents. In: Shen, W., Yong, J., Yang, Y., Barthès, JP.A., Luo, J. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV. CSCWD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92719-8_24

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