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Item Software agents architecture for managing inter-organizational collaboration(2014) Villarreal, Pablo; Chiotti, Omar; Tello-Leal, EdgarThe globalization, modern markets, as well as new organizational management philosophies and advances in Information and Communications Technologies, encourage organizations to establish collaboration networks or interorganizational collaborations. In this paper we propose a technology solution based on software agents which allows supporting the management of collaborative business processes in environments dynamic inter-organizational collaborations. First, we propose a software agent platform that integrates in agent specification's the notions of Belief-Desire-Intention agent architecture with functionalities of process-aware information systems. The platform enables organizations to negotiate collaborations agreements in electronic format to establish dynamic inter-organizational collaborations and define the collaborative processes to be executed. Second, we propose a methodology that includes methods based on Model-Driven Development, which enable the generation of executable process models and the code of process-oriented agents, derived from conceptual models of collaborative processes. This methodology and methods are implemented and automated by software agents that enable the generations of these implementation artifacts, at run-time of the platform. Therefore, the platform enables the automatic generation of the technology solution that requires each organization to execute the agreed collaborative processes, where the generated artifacts are built and initialized in the platform, allowing the implementation and execution of these processes. In this way, the proposed agent-based platform allows to establish collaboration among heterogeneous and autonomous organizations focusing in the process-oriented integration.Item Software agents for management dynamic inter-organizational collaborations(2014) Villarreal, Pablo; Chiotti, Omar; Tello-Leal, EdgarThe globalization, modern markets, as well as new organizational management philosophies and advances in Information and Communications Technologies, encourage organizations to establish collaboration networks or interorganizational collaborations. In this paper we propose a technology solution based on software agents which allows supporting the management of collaborative business processes in environments dynamic inter-organizational collaborations. First, we propose a software agent platform that integrates in agent specification's the notions of Belief-Desire-Intention agent architecture with functionalities of process-aware information systems. The platform enables organizations to negotiate collaborations agreements in electronic format to establish dynamic inter-organizational collaborations and define the collaborative processes to be executed. Second, we propose a methodology that includes methods based on Model-Driven Development, which enable the generation of executable process models and the code of process-oriented agents, derived from conceptual models of collaborative processes. This methodology and methods are implemented and automated by software agents that enable the generations of these implementation artifacts, at run-time of the platform. Therefore, the platform enables the automatic generation of the technology solution that requires each organization to execute the agreed collaborative processes, where the generated artifacts are built and initialized in the platform, allowing the implementation and execution of these processes. In this way, the proposed agent-based platform allows to establish collaboration among heterogeneous and autonomous organizations focusing in the process-oriented integration.Item Extending the WS-Humantask architecture to support the resource perspective of BPEL processes(2014) Villarreal, Pablo; Stroppi, Luis Jesús Ramón; Chiotti, OmarThe globalization, modern markets, as well as new organizational management philosophies and advances in Information and Communications Technologies, encourage organizations to establish collaboration networks or interorganizational collaborations. In this paper we propose a technology solution based on software agents which allows supporting the management of collaborative business processes in environments dynamic inter-organizational collaborations. First, we propose a software agent platform that integrates in agent specification's the notions of Belief-Desire-Intention agent architecture with functionalities of process-aware information systems. The platform enables organizations to negotiate collaborations agreements in electronic format to establish dynamic inter-organizational collaborations and define the collaborative processes to be executed. Second, we propose a methodology that includes methods based on Model-Driven Development, which enable the generation of executable process models and the code of process-oriented agents, derived from conceptual models of collaborative processes. This methodology and methods are implemented and automated by software agents that enable the generations of these implementation artifacts, at run-time of the platform. Therefore, the platform enables the automatic generation of the technology solution that requires each organization to execute the agreed collaborative processes, where the generated artifacts are built and initialized in the platform, allowing the implementation and execution of these processes. In this way, the proposed agent-based platform allows to establish collaboration among heterogeneous and autonomous organizations focusing in the process-oriented integration.Item Detection of anti-patterns in the control flow of collaborative business processes(2015) Chiotti, Omar; Roa, Jorge; Villarreal, PabloThe verification of the behavior of Collaborative Business Processes is an important aspect to consider when developing inter-organizational systems. In this work, a verification approach for the control flow of collaborative processes based on anti-patterns is proposed to improve the performance of verification. The approach supports the verification of complex constructs for advanced synchronization, multiple instances, and exception management. To this aim, 10 anti-patterns were defined from a repository of process models, and a tool which implements the anti-patterns was developed to evaluate the verification approach. Results indicate that, at worst, the verification time is less than half a millisecond, even for models with complex control flow constructs.Item Verification of structured processes : a method based on unsoundness profile(2013) Villarreal, Pablo; Roa, Jorge; Chiotti, OmarThe verification of business processes has been widely studied in the last two decades achieving significant results. Despite this, existing verification tech-niques based on state space exploration suffer, for large processes, the state space explosion problem. New techniques improved verification performance by structuring processes as trees. However, they do not support complex con-structs for advanced synchronization and exception management. To cope with this issue we propose the definition of an unsoundness profile of a given pro-cess language, which specifies all possible combinations of control flow con-structs that can lead to errors in the behavior of structured processes defined with such a language. In addition, we introduce the sequential and hierarchical soundness properties, which make use of this profile to determine soundness of a structured process with complex constructs in polynomial time. As an exam-ple, we defined an unsoundness profile for a subset of the BPMN language and verified the behavior of a BPMN process model.