The Swarm Computing Approach to Business Intelligence

• Authors: Andrew Schumann , Krzysztof Pancerz , Andrzej Szelc
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We have proposed to use some features of swarm behaviours in modelling business processes. Due to these features we deal with a propagation of business processes in all accessible directions. This propagation is involved into our formalization instead of communicating sequential processes. As a result, we have constructed a business process diagram language based on the swarm behavior and an extension of that language in the form of reflexive management language.

Keywords

EN

swarm intelligence; emergency; unconventional computing

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Humana
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 41-50

Dates

published

2015-07-01

online

2016-01-06

Contributors

author

Andrew Schumann

• University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland

author

Krzysztof Pancerz

• University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland

author

Andrzej Szelc

• University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/sh-2015-0019