Dynamic Recon guration in Collaborative Problem Solving

In this article we will describe our research eeorts in coping with a trade-oo that can be often found in the control and optimization of todays business processes. Though centralized control may achieve near-to-optimum results in optimizing the system behavior, there are usually social, technical and security restrictions on applying centralized control. Distributed control on the other hand may cope with these restrictions but also entails sub-optimality and communicational overhead. Our concept of composable agents tries to allow a dynamic and uent transition between globalization and localization in business process control by adapting to the current real-world system structure. We are currently evaluating this concept in the framework of patient ow control at Charit e Berlin.