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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf20302</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2009.254</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An Agent-Based Model for Autonomic Coordination of Inter-Organizational Business Processes</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Andonoff</surname><given-names>Eric</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:andonoff@univ-tlse1.fr">andonoff@univ-tlse1.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Bouaziz</surname><given-names>Wassim</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:wassim.bouaziz@univ-tlse1.fr">wassim.bouaziz@univ-tlse1.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Hanachi</surname><given-names>Chihab</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:hanachi@univ-tlse1.fr">hanachi@univ-tlse1.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">IRIT, Université de Toulouse, 2 Rue de Doyen Gabriel Marty, 31042 Toulouse, Cédex 9, France</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Bouzguenda</surname><given-names>Lotfi</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:lotfi.bouzguenda@isimsf.rnu.tn">lotfi.bouzguenda@isimsf.rnu.tn</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">MIRACL, Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et du Multimédia, Route de Tunis, BP 242, 3021 Sakeit Ezzit, Sfax, Tunisie</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2009</year></pub-date><volume>20</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>323</fpage><lpage>342</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>10</month><year>2008</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>03</month><year>2009</year></date></history><abstract><p>Inter-Organizational Workflow (IOW) aims at supporting the collaboration between several autonomous and heterogeneous business processes, distributed over different enterprises or organizations. Coordination of these processes is a fundamental issue that has been mainly addressed in a static context, but it still remains open in a dynamic one such as the Internet in which IOW applications are more and more enacted nowadays. In such a context, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are known to be a natural solution for modeling IOW since they provide adequate abstractions and specific mediators to cope with IOW coordination. Consequently, this paper provides an agent-based model for coordinating business processes involved in a dynamic IOW. This model is a triplet (E, M, R). E is the set of coordinated entities. It corresponds to the different business processes that may be published, discovered or deployed by IOW partners. M is the media supporting coordination. It is a multi-agent architecture compliant with the Workflow Management Coalition architecture and integrating specific components devoted to coordination issues. Finally, R is the set of rules governing the coordination. In our context, R is described through an organizational model aiming at structuring the interaction among the coordinated entities and the different components of the architecture.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>inter-organizational workflow</kwd><kwd>business process</kwd><kwd>dynamic coordination</kwd><kwd>agent-based model</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>