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Existing computer science approaches to business modeling offer low-level abstractions such as data and control flows, which fail to capture the business intent underlying the interactions that are central to real-life business models. In contrast, existing management science approaches are high-level but not only are these semiformal, they are also focused exclusively on managerial concerns such as valuations and profitability.
This paper proposes a novel business metamodel based on commitments that considers additional agent-oriented concepts, specifically, goals and tasks. It proposes a set of business patterns and algorithms for checking model completeness and verification of agent interactions. Unlike traditional models, our approach marries rigor and flexibility, providing a crisp notion of correctness and compliance independent of specific executions.
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Telang, P.R., Singh, M.P. (2009). Business Modeling via Commitments. In: Kowalczyk, R., Vo, Q.B., Maamar, Z., Huhns, M. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering. SOCASE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10739-9_9
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