Letting Go of Control
Keith Swenson, Fujitsu
Agents have been proposed as a new way to provide for better business processes. What evidence exists? This talk define agents, and compare and contrast agents to previous technology trends. Agents promise to distribute the process logic across different owners. With different owners, the agents need additional capabilities to negotiate the interface variances that will necessarily appear. But most important, and possibly most concerning, is that flowing a process through a set of agents means loss of central control on how that process progresses. How can we cope with that?