An event-driven approach for agent-based business process enactment

Agents enacting business processes in large open environments need to adaptively accommodate exceptions. Work on multiagent approaches can flexibly model business processes. This paper proposes an event-driven architecture that enriches such models with events resulting in a more robust and proactive system. Specifically, we place this architecture in a business process framework based on protocols and policies, where agents’ behaviors are specified via rules. The contributions of this paper include (1) an event-driven architecture, (2) a specification language that combines event logic with rules and (3) a methodology to incorporate events into a process (such as for fine-grained monitoring), (4) a way to manage subscriptions to simple events efficiently. This approach is applied on a well-known business scenario.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Payal Chakravarty, Munindar P. Singh
• Keywords: Agents Enacting Business, ATAL 2007, Business Processes, Event-driven Architecture