Managing Business-to-Business Processes

Abstract

Industry processes are the trans-corporate business processes required to support the e-business environment. Industry process re-engineering is the re-engineering of trans-corporate business processes as electronically managed processes. Industry process re-engineering is business process reengineering on a massively distributed scale. Industry processes are not restricted to routine workflows that follow a more-or-less fixed path; they will include complex processes for which their future path may be unknown at each stage in their existence. A multiagent process management system is described that can manage processes of high complexity.