Abstract
Present evolution of manufacturing systems is characterized by multi-firms enterprises, often organized in multi-site networks where each firm can be managed with large autonomy. Current workflow technology does not provide the necessary functionality to model and manage such processes, mostly due to centralized structures and limited process management capabilities. In this paper some on-going efforts to approach new problems involved in distributed decoupled management architectures, based on individual autonomous agents, are presented. In particular, the scope is to verify if and when the increasing complexity of a large-scale enterprise, composed by several firms which aim to cooperate together, is going to allow a greater and greater autonomy to local decision-makers. Based on new definitions of cooperation among the agents, the opportunity of employing decoupled management architecture is analyzed, thus also giving suggestions for distributed workflow management systems.
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