Designing Negotiation Mechanisms for Self-centered Interorganizational Workflow

Different organizations have different backgrounds of culture and knowledge which might lead to potential conflicts in the modern interorganizational workflow. Another fact in this research area is that each organization wants to keep some parts of its local workflow secret to other organizations. Considering the above features, this thesis proposes an approach of modeling the selfcentered interorganizational workflow based on previous research of loosely coupled interorganizational workflow. In the selfcentered interorganizational workflow model, each organization has its own view of modeling the workflow based on its local cultural and knowledge background instead of sharing a predefined common global workflow with other organizations. Further, we design the multiagent cooperative negotiation mechanisms for the self-centered interorganizational workflow model both in the workflow modeling phase and in the workflow executing phase. Finally, the evaluation of the multiagent negotiation mechanisms will be discussed and analyzed.