Turbulence is in the nature of business environments. Changes brought about because of different requirements such as social, political, technical and economic, exert pressures on ...
Realistic and complex planning situations require a mixed-initiative planning framework in which human and automated planners interact to mutually construct a desired plan. Ideally...
In business processes, knowledge-intensive tasks are ones in which the people performing such tasks are involved in a fair degree of uncertainty. These people are required to appl...
This paper provides three contributions to the study of functional integration of distributed enterprise systems. First, we describe the challenges associated with functionally in...
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, ...
Abstract— Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, ...