Nowadays, many organizations form dynamic partnerships to effectively deal with market
requirements. Companies focus on their core business and outsource secondary activities to …

Keyword search is a familiar and potentially effective way to find information of interest that
is" locked" inside relational databases. Current work has generally assumed that answers …

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities
of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue …

The increasing volume of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B)
Internet traffic provides great opportunity to delegate information search, analysis, and …

As supply chain networks are becoming more and more global, process coordination must
be considered a crucial point for successful business management. The need for a suitable …

Efficient means of electronic interaction are an essential requirement for the integration of
different companies' business processes along the value chain. Until recently, this …

Workflow management systems (WfMSs) based on agent technology can cope with the
rapidly evolving business environment better than most other systems as they are more …

2000-12-19 Assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
reassignment BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY …

Rapid changes in the business environment call for more flexible and adaptive workflow
systems. Researchers have proposed that Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs) …

Workflow management systems are an emerging category of information systems, currently
under dynamic evolution. On the other hand software agents are a distinct research area as …