Addressing agility in collaborative processes: A comparative study

Efficiency of emerging digital ecosystems is strongly dependent on the efficiency of their collaborative processes. One crucial component of this efficiency is agility of collaborative processes. This article first provides a vision of agility of process in the world of workflow orchestration. Two approaches to deal with this issue (SAR from the European project PLAY and agility service from the French project SocEDA) are presented and illustrated (according to a scenario of nuclear crisis management). Comparison of both these approaches is structured according to different components of agility (detection, adaptation and reactivity). Some advantages and drawbacks of both these approaches are finally highlighted.

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