From Centralized Workflow Specification to Distributed WorkflowExecution
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
A comprehensive approach to flexibility in workflow management systems
WACC '99 Proceedings of the international joint conference on Work activities coordination and collaboration
A Decentralized Architecture for Software Process Modeling and Enactment
IEEE Internet Computing
Using Little-JIL to Coordinate Agents in Software Engineering
ASE '00 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
A Multiagent System for the Reliable Execution of Automatically Composed Ad-hoc Processes
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards Service-Oriented Ontology-Based Coordination
ICWS '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
ADEPT workflow management system: flexible support for enterprise-wide business processes
BPM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Business process management
Optimally distributing interactions between composed semantic web services
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX
Building multi-agent systems for workflow enactment and exception handling
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
What agents can do in workflow management systems
Artificial Intelligence Review
Lightweight coordination calculus for agent systems: retrospective and prospective
DALT'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
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This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enacting mechanism starting from a BPEL4WS specification. Our work demonstrates that a multi-agent interaction protocol (Lightweight Coordination Calculus) can be derived from a BPEL4WS specification to enable pure decentralised business workflows. The key difference between our work and other existing multi-agent based systems is that our approach proposes a pure distributed architecture (no centralised controller/coordinator) for deploying workflow systems in an open environment (internat). Moreover, with our approach, existing workflow developing methodologies and business process models can be adopted in as much as possible for multi-agent system development. Some problems we encountered such as mapping problem between the used business process modelling and multi-agent interaction protocol description languages are addressed.