An Agent-Oriented Framework for Enterprise Modelling
(2007) Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction — ISBN: [978-3-540-29395-8], 151-161, published
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- This paper proposes an agent-oriented meta-model that provides rigorous concepts for conducting enterprise modelling. The aim is to allow analysts to produce an enterprise model that precisely captures the knowledge of an organization and of its business processes so that an agent-oriented requirements specification of the system-to-be and its operational corporate environment can be derived from it. To this end, the model identifies constructs that enable capturing the intrinsic characteristics of an agent system such as autonomy, intentionality, sociality, identity and boundary, or rational self-interest; an agent being an organizational actor and/or a software component. Such an approach of the concept of agent allows the analyst to have a holistic perspective integrating human and organizational aspects to gain better understanding of business system inner and outer modelling issues. The meta-model takes roots in both management theory and requirements engineering. It helps bridging the gap between enterprise and requirements models proposing an integrated framework, comprehensive and expressive to both managers and software (requirements) engineers.
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Louvain School of Management Operations and Information
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Jureta, I., & Faulkner, S. (2007). An Agent-Oriented Framework for Enterprise Modelling. In Jacky Akoka, Stephen W. Liddle, Il-Yeol Song, Michela Bertolotto, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Manuel Kolp, Juan Trujillo, Christian Kop, Heinrich C. Mayr (eds.) (ed.), Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction (pp. 151-161). IGI Publishing. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/44351