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This study presents an evolutionary approach to support dynamic enterprise modeling for enterprise process cooperative scheduling and management. In this paper, an evolutionary dynamic enterprise process modeling method was proposed from the concepts of enterprise process evolution to zero-time enterprise modeling and layered complex enterprise modeling. Based on an autonomous agent development platform, an agent-based enterprise collaborative modeling environment has been implemented by integrating several software resource agents that wrap main function modules of EPMS. Scheduling strategies, algorithms, and process-driven cooperative scheduling mechanism are also discussed.










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This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 69803003), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. Y106039), and the Key Research Foundation of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department of China (Grant No. 20060491).
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Xu, L., Tan, W., Zhen, H. et al. An approach to enterprise process dynamic modeling supporting enterprise process evolution. Inf Syst Front 10, 611–624 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-008-9114-3
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