CoLan: a functional constraint language and its implementation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Artificial intelligence and virtual organizations
Communications of the ACM
The functional data model and the data languages DAPLEX
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The Evolving Role of Constraints in the Functional Data Model
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on functional approach to intelligent information systems
A Knowledge Processing System for Data Service Network Design
BT Technology Journal
Guest Editor's Introduction: Intelligent E-Business—From Technology to Value
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Developing Finite Domain Constraints - A Data Model Approach
CL '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Logic
Ontological modeling of virtual organization agents
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
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Virtual organisations underpin many important activities in distributed computing, including e-commerce and e-science. This paper describes a new technique by which software agents can intelligently form virtual organisations to meet some pre-specified requirements. Our approach builds on work in BDI agents and constraint satisfaction techniques. Using a realistic service-providing scenario, we show how an agent can use constraint solving techniques to explore possible virtual organisation alliances with other agents, based on its beliefs and desires. The agent can choose the best among several possible virtual organisations to form in order to meet a customer's requirements. Our approach is to use a deliberative process to construct possible worlds, each corresponding to a potential virtual organisation, and each configured using constraint satisfaction techniques. We also show how an agent can take account of pre-existing virtual organisation relationships in its deliberations.