Pattern matching algorithms
Tackling the Challenges of Service Composition in E-Marketplaces
RIDE '02 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE'02)
Flexible Interface Matching for Web-Service Discovery
WISE '03 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Dynamic Invocation Model of Web Services Using Subsumption Relations
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
HTN planning for Web Service composition using SHOP2
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Agent Communication Using Web Services, a New FIPA Message Transport Service for Jade
MATES '07 Proceedings of the 5th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
Software Engineering for Service-Oriented MAS
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Traceability-centric model-driven object-oriented engineering
Information and Software Technology
Evaluating software engineering techniques for developing complex systems with multiagent approaches
Information and Software Technology
First class connectors for prototyping service oriented architectures
ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
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Business process management has been identified as an interesting application area for agent technologies. Current developments in Web technologies support the execution of business processes in a networked environment. In this context, the flexible composition and usage of services in a service-oriented environment is a key feature. Additionally, the model-driven architecture (MDA) idea of transforming models on different abstraction levels, from highly abstract design-oriented views to an executable program, is a current trend in business process modeling. BDI agents provide a framework for both aspects by employing a planning from second principles approach, which uses a predefined library of plans and instantiates and adapts these plans. From this perspective, plans are design-time models for agent task execution and for Web Service composition. This paper presents a Rapid Prototyping framework for SOAs built around a Model-Driven Development methodology which we use for transforming high-level specifications of an SOA into executable artefacts, both for Web Services (WSDL files) and for BDI agents. The framework was designed to handle a mix of new and existing services and provides facilities for simulating, logging, analysing and debugging. Our framework was validated on a real industrial electronic procurement scenario in the furniture manufacturing industry. Once input from business experts had been collected, creating the high-level PIM4SOA (Platform Independent Model for SOA) model, deriving the Web service description and incorporating existing Web services took less than a day for a person already familiar with the techniques and tools involved. We show that rapid prototyping of SOAs is possible without sacrificing the alignment of the prototype with high-level architectural constraints.