Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Software engineering with reusable components
Software engineering with reusable components
Multiagent systems and societies of agents
Multiagent systems
Production workflow: concepts and techniques
Production workflow: concepts and techniques
On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Software architecture: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Toward intelligent business objects
Communications of the ACM
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Agent coordination via scripting languages
Coordination of Internet agents
Definition of a software component and its elements
Component-based software engineering
Component models and component services: concepts and principles
Component-based software engineering
Software agents as next generation software components
Component-based software engineering
Managing software acquisition: open systems and COTS products
Managing software acquisition: open systems and COTS products
Web services: building blocks for distributed systems
Web services: building blocks for distributed systems
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Software Engineering: Theory and Practice
Software Engineering: Theory and Practice
Business Components Factory: A Comprehensive Overview of Component-Based Development for the Enterprise
The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into Ebusiness Transformation
The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into Ebusiness Transformation
Internet-Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web
Internet-Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web
IEEE Internet Computing
Web Services and Context Horizons
Computer
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems
Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems
Agents for e-business applications
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Flexible Workflow Driven Job Shop Manufacturing Execution and Automation Based on Multi Agent System
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Rudder: An agent-based infrastructure for autonomic composition of grid applications
Multiagent and Grid Systems
An expert system for dynamic re-coordination of distributed workflows
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
West2East: exploiting WEb Service Technologies to Engineer Agent-based SofTware
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
An agent-based decentralised process management framework for web service composition
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Scalable information systems
WADE: a software platform to develop mission critical applications exploiting agents and workflows
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Introducing a Process Infrastructure for Agent Systems
Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
Agent-Based Simulation of Business Processes in a Virtual World
HAIS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems
An ontology, intelligent agent-based framework for the provision of semantic web services
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Research on Intelligent Manufacturing System Based on Multi-Agent
ICIRA '08 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Part II
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
GPC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
Using interaction models to detect and resolve inconsistencies in evolving service compositions
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism
CloudCom '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing
Towards systematic human brain data management using a data-brain based GLS-BI system
BI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Brain informatics
Petri-net integration - An approach to support multi-agent process mining
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Autonomic internet-scale workflows
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond
What agents can do in workflow management systems
Artificial Intelligence Review
Comparing Service-Oriented Computing and Agent-Oriented Programming towards integration
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Adapting rigidly specified workflow in the absence of detailed ontology
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
WM'05 Proceedings of the Third Biennial conference on Professional Knowledge Management
CDVE'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering
Using task modelling concepts for achieving adaptive workflows
EHCI-DSVIS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems
Coordinating learning agents for multiple resource job scheduling
ALA'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Adaptive and Learning Agents
Obtaining an optimal MAS configuration for agent-enhanced mining using constraint optimization
ADMI'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
Composing web services enacted by autonomous agents through agent-centric contract net protocol
Information and Software Technology
Adaptive Collaboration Based on the E-CARGO Model
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
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Advances in Information Technology have created opportunities for business enterprises to redesign their information and process management systems. The redesigned systems will likely employ some form of workflow management system. Workflow management systems exactly enact business processes described in a process description language. Unfortunately, such strict adherence to the prescribed workflow makes it impossible for the system to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. We firmly believe that the historic trajectory of software development paradigms and IT advancements will establish multiagent systems as the workflow enactment mechanism of the future. In this paper we provide a critical survey of workflow, workflow description languages, web services and agent technologies. We propose that workflow description languages and their associated design tools can be used to specify a multiagent system. Specifically, we advance the idea that the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) can be used as a specification language for expressing the initial social order of the multiagent system, which can then intelligently adapt to changing environmental conditions.