Credits and debits on the Internet
IEEE Spectrum - Special issue: electronic money
Flexible protocol specification and execution: applying event calculus planning using commitments
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Automating supply-chain management
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Defining interaction protocols using a commitment-based agent communication language
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Realizability of Conversation Protocols With Message Contents
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
A Semantic Approach for Designing Commitment Protocols
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
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Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, enabling implementors to independently develop components that respect published protocols and yet serve diverse interests. A variety of business protocols would be needed to capture subtle business needs. We propose that the same kinds of conceptual abstractions be developed for protocols as for information models. Specifically, we consider (1) refinement: a subprotocol may satisfy the requirements of a superprotocol, but support additional properties; and (2) aggregation: a protocol may combine existing protocols. In support of the above, this paper develops a semantics of protocols and an operational characterization of them. This supports judgments about the potential subclass-superclass relations between protocols, which are a result of protocol refinement. It also enables protocol aggregation by splicing a protocol into another protocol.