A Formal Description of a Mapping from Business Processes to Agents

Abstract

Having many notions in common with multi-agent systems, business processes are well suited for modelling agents and their interrelations. However, often vague semantics and structural differences make a mapping from business processes to multi-agent systems difficult. In this paper, we formally describe a mapping from business process models to multi-agent systems that can be applied to different agent frameworks and languages. Using the same mapping, we created four semantically equivalent and interoperable implementations suiting different areas of application.

@InCollection{kuester2015formal,
  Title                    = {A Formal Description of a Mapping from Business Processes to Agents},
  Author                   = {Tobias K"uster and Marco L"utzenberger and Sahin Albayrak},
  Booktitle                = {Engineering Multi-Agent Systems -- Third International Workshop, EMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5, 2015, Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers},
  Publisher                = {Springer International Publishing},
  Year                     = {2015},
  Editor                   = {Baldoni, Matteo and Baresi, Luciano and Dastani, Mehdi},
  Pages                    = {153--170},
  Series                   = {LNAI},
  Volume                   = {9318},

  Doi                      = {10.1007/978-3-319-26184-3_9},
  ISBN                     = {978-1-4503-3413-6}
}

Authors:

Tobias Küster, Marco Lützenberger, Sahin Albayrak

Category:

Conference Paper

Year:

2015

Location:

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems -- Third International Workshop, EMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5, 2015, Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers