• jeudi 20 mars 2003 : EPUM-GII, Campus St Jérôme - salle de Conférences (rez de chaussée)
  
  
  • 14h30 : Agent-Oriented Enterprise Modeling - Gerd Wagner
    Department Information & Technology, Faculty of Technology Management
    Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland
    
    Résumé :
    Enterprise modeling is concerned with developing models of organizations viewed as systems that consist of various entity types, some of them being involved in (intra- or inter-organizational) business processes. In the predominant object-oriented approach, all entities (items, orders, customers, suppliers, etc.) are "business objects", which "collaborate" with each other. In an agent-oriented approach, a distinction is made between active and passive entities: only (business) agents are able to perceive events, perform actions, enter into commitments or acquire claims, while (business) objects are not. We propose an agentoriented modeling language, AORML (http://AOR.rezearch.info), where an organization is viewed as an institutional agent defining the rights and duties of its internal agents that act on behalf of it, and being involved in a number of interactions with external (and internal) agents, while an organizational information system is viewed as an artificial internal agent.