Mercury: a platform for the execution of multiagent systems
NOTERE '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on New technologies in distributed systems
25 years of applications of logic programming in Italy
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Virtual Enterprises (YE) and Workflow Management Systems (WFMS) require deployable and flexible infrastructures, promoting the integration of heterogenous resources and services, as well as the development of new YE's business processes in terms of workflow (WF) rules coordinating the activities of YE's component enterprises. In this paper; we argue that a suitable general-purpose coordination infrastructure may well fit the needs of YE management in a highly dynamic and unpredictable environment like the Internet, by providing engineers with the abstractions and run-time support to address heterogeneity of different sorts, and to represent WF rules as coordination laws. We discuss the requirements for YE infrastructures, and suggest why YE management and WFMS may be seen as coordination problems. Then, we introduce the TuCSoN coordination model and technology, and show, both in principle and in a simple case study, how such a coordination infrastructure can support the design and development of YE's WFMS.