An Agent Oriented Architecture to Supply Dynamic Document Generation in ERP Systems
One of the most important aspects expected from an
ERP system is to mange user\administrator manual documents
dynamically. Since an ERP package is frequently changed during its
implementation in customer sites, it is often needed to add new
documents and/or apply required changes to existing documents in
order to cover new or changed capabilities. The worse is that since
these changes occur continuously, the corresponding documents
should be updated dynamically; otherwise, implementing the ERP
package in the organization encounters serious risks. In this paper, we
propose a new architecture which is based on the agent oriented
vision and supplies the dynamic document generation expected from
ERP systems using several independent but cooperative agents.
Beside the dynamic document generation which is the main issue of
this paper, the presented architecture will address some aspects of
intelligence and learning capabilities existing in ERP.
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System, MIT AI Lab Technical Report 1493, 1994.
[2] O-Leary, D., Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life
Cycle, Electronic Commerce, and Risk, Cambridge University Press,
2000.
[3] Calisir, F., The Relation of Interface Usability Characteristics, perceived
Usefulness, and Perceived Ease of Use to End-User Satisfaction with
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, Computer in Human
Behavior, Vol. 20. No. 4, pp. 505-515, 2004.
[4] Grabski, S. V., Leech, S. A., Complementary Controls and ERP
Implementation Success, International Journal of Accounting
Information Systems, Vol. 8, 2007.
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McGraw Hill, 2000.
[6] Sudzina, F., Johansson, B., Finding ERP Requirements that Support
Strategic Management in Organizations, Proc. of Academic International
Conf., Increasing Competitiveness or Regional, National and
International Markets Development - New Challenges, 2007.
[7] Haghighi, H., Shahhosseini, H. S., Mobasheri, M., Enterprise Resource
Planning Software: Development, Evaluation, Selection, and
Implementation (In Persian), Tahsin Publisher, 2010.
[8] Sumner, M., Enterprise Resource Planning, Upper Saddle River, NJ,
Prentice Hall, 2004.
[9] Henderson-Sellers, B., Giorgini, P., Agent-Oriented Methodologies, Idea
Group Publishing, 2005.
[10] Chauhan, D., Baker, A., JAFMAS: A Multi-Agent Application
Development System, Proc. of the Second International Conference on
Autonomous Agents, pp. 100-107, 1998.
[11] Davies, W., Edwards, P., Agent-based Knowledge Discovery, Proc. Of
AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium on Information Gathering from
Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments, pp. 34-37, 1995.
[12] Bose, R., Sugumaran, V., Application of Intelligent Agent Technology
for Managerial Data Analysis and Mining, Database for Advances in
Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 77-94, 1999.
[13] Lea, B., Gupta, M. C., Yu, W., A Prototype Multi-Agent ERP System:
An Integrated Architecture and a Conceptual Framework, Technovation,
ol. 25, pp. 433-441, 2005.
[14] Haghighi, H., Ghorbani, S., Mohebati, M., Javanmard, M.M., An Agent
Oriented Architecture to Supply Integration in ERP systems. Word
Academy of Science Engineering and Technology. Issue 73, 2011.
[1] Coen, M., SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction
System, MIT AI Lab Technical Report 1493, 1994.
[2] O-Leary, D., Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life
Cycle, Electronic Commerce, and Risk, Cambridge University Press,
2000.
[3] Calisir, F., The Relation of Interface Usability Characteristics, perceived
Usefulness, and Perceived Ease of Use to End-User Satisfaction with
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, Computer in Human
Behavior, Vol. 20. No. 4, pp. 505-515, 2004.
[4] Grabski, S. V., Leech, S. A., Complementary Controls and ERP
Implementation Success, International Journal of Accounting
Information Systems, Vol. 8, 2007.
[5] Jacobs, F. R., Clay, D., Why ERP? A Primer on SAP Implementation,
McGraw Hill, 2000.
[6] Sudzina, F., Johansson, B., Finding ERP Requirements that Support
Strategic Management in Organizations, Proc. of Academic International
Conf., Increasing Competitiveness or Regional, National and
International Markets Development - New Challenges, 2007.
[7] Haghighi, H., Shahhosseini, H. S., Mobasheri, M., Enterprise Resource
Planning Software: Development, Evaluation, Selection, and
Implementation (In Persian), Tahsin Publisher, 2010.
[8] Sumner, M., Enterprise Resource Planning, Upper Saddle River, NJ,
Prentice Hall, 2004.
[9] Henderson-Sellers, B., Giorgini, P., Agent-Oriented Methodologies, Idea
Group Publishing, 2005.
[10] Chauhan, D., Baker, A., JAFMAS: A Multi-Agent Application
Development System, Proc. of the Second International Conference on
Autonomous Agents, pp. 100-107, 1998.
[11] Davies, W., Edwards, P., Agent-based Knowledge Discovery, Proc. Of
AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium on Information Gathering from
Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments, pp. 34-37, 1995.
[12] Bose, R., Sugumaran, V., Application of Intelligent Agent Technology
for Managerial Data Analysis and Mining, Database for Advances in
Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 77-94, 1999.
[13] Lea, B., Gupta, M. C., Yu, W., A Prototype Multi-Agent ERP System:
An Integrated Architecture and a Conceptual Framework, Technovation,
ol. 25, pp. 433-441, 2005.
[14] Haghighi, H., Ghorbani, S., Mohebati, M., Javanmard, M.M., An Agent
Oriented Architecture to Supply Integration in ERP systems. Word
Academy of Science Engineering and Technology. Issue 73, 2011.
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ERP system is to mange user\administrator manual documents
dynamically. Since an ERP package is frequently changed during its
implementation in customer sites, it is often needed to add new
documents and/or apply required changes to existing documents in
order to cover new or changed capabilities. The worse is that since
these changes occur continuously, the corresponding documents
should be updated dynamically; otherwise, implementing the ERP
package in the organization encounters serious risks. In this paper, we
propose a new architecture which is based on the agent oriented
vision and supplies the dynamic document generation expected from
ERP systems using several independent but cooperative agents.
Beside the dynamic document generation which is the main issue of
this paper, the presented architecture will address some aspects of
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