Organizations have to face new challenges, hold new opportunities, conquer and maintain important customers and get a better strategic position as faster as possible. The principles used in Autonomic Computing can be adapted to help them survive in this dynamic business scenario. Thus, organizations should count on processes that can be able to selfconfigure, self-heal, self-optimize and self-protect, i.e., self-manage and selfadapt to better answer market and organization’s changes and new challenges – Autonomic Business Processes. This work proposes a multi-agent rule-based scalable architecture to provide business processes with autonomic properties, reducing the need for human intervention, and improving overall organization’s
José A. Rodrigues Nt., Pedro C. L. Monteiro