DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Model-Driven Web Services Development
EEE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'04)
Augmenting semantic web service descriptions with compositional specification
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Automated composition of e-services: lookaheads
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing
Interaction Protocols as Design Abstractions for Business Processes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An algebra for commitment protocols
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Specifying and resolving preferences among agent interaction patterns
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Speeding up web service composition with volatile external information
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Context enabled source and service selection, integration and adaptation: organized with the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)
On illegal composition of first-class agent interaction protocols
ACSC '08 Proceedings of the thirty-first Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 74
Specifying Open Agent Systems: A Survey
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX
Using constraints and process algebra for specification of first-class agent interaction protocols
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Towards an approach for formalizing the supply chain operations
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems
DENEB: a platform for the development and execution of interoperable dynamic Web processes
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
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Business process modelling and enactment are notoriously complex, especially in open settings where the business partners are autonomous, requirements must be continually finessed, and exceptions frequently arise because of real-world or organizational problems. Traditional approaches, which attempt to capture processes as monolithic flows, have proved inadequate in addressing these challenges. We propose an agent-based approach for business process modelling and enactment which is centred around the concepts of commitment-based agent interaction protocols and policies. A (business) protocol is a modular, public specification of an interaction among different roles. Such protocols, when integrated with the internal business policies of the participants, yield concrete business processes. We show how this reusable, refinable and evolvable abstraction simplifies business process design and development.