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Reliable Document-centric Processing and Choreography Policy in a Loosely Coupled Email-based System

Authors:
Magdalena Godlewska

Keywords: collaborative work; electronic documents; email-based systems; knowledge-based organization; choreography

Abstract:
Email is a simple way to exchange digital documents of any kind. The Mobile INteractive Document architecture (MIND) enables self-coordination and self-steering of document agent systems based on commonly available email services. In this paper, a mechanism for providing integrity and reliability of such an email based agent system is proposed to cope with message soft or hard bounces, user interrupts, and other unexpected events. This mechanism consists of a system acting as a ”ground control” for migrating documents and a set of protocols that improve the implementation of document coordination patterns. It allows for an estimation of the global state of a distributed loosely coupled agent system and making top-down decisions in unforeseen situations. In complex human organizations, it is important to determine who can make decisions and what is their scope in the process. The choreography policy allows for defining communication tactics and assigning permissions of workflow editing to participants of the process.

Pages: 1 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679