Article in Proceedings INPROC-1999-15

BibliographyBecht, Michael; Klarmann, Jürgen; Kulendik, Ottokar; Levi, Paul; Muscholl, Matthias: A Platform for Supporting Integrated Human and Agent Based Cooperation.
In: Proceedings of the 15th GI/ITG-Fachtagung Architektur von Rechensystemen (ARCS'99).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science.
pp. 221-224, english.
Jena, Germany: VDE-Verlag, October 1999.
ISBN: 3-8007-2482-0.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.1.0 (Information Systems Models and Principles General)
Abstract

Cooperation between humans is supported by means of workflow management systems and groupware tools, whereas support for agents mainly consists in standardising agent communication languages and developing co-operation protocols. Most of these mechanisms are designed for special situations. Thus, they do not take into account that characteristics of environment, work, persons and agents can change and that relations between dif-ferent cooperations exist. In the following, an innovative cooperation model and platform is introduced. An ex-tended concept of roles and structured communication cares for integration of humans and agents and increases flexibility. Our approach enables to change the organisational structure without the need to restructure the coop-eration protocols and vice versa.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems, Distributed Systems
Entry dateJuly 20, 2001
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