a paradigm for decentralized process modeling and its realization in the oz environment

• DOI: 10.5555/257734.257764
• Publication Date: 2002-12-17
• Authors: Israel Z. Ben-Shaul; Gail E. Kaiser
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We present a model for decentralized Process Centered Environments (PCEs), which support concerted efforts among geographically-dispersed teams - each local team with its own autonomous process - and emphasize flexibility in the tradeoff between collaboration vs. autonomy. We consider both decentralized process modeling and decentralized process enaction. We describe a realization in the OZ decentralized PCE, which employs a rule-based formalism, and also investigate the application to PCEs based on Petri-nets. >