Agent-oriented compositional approaches to services-based cross-organizational workflow

  • Authors:
  • M. Brian Blake;Hassan Gomaa

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgetown University, NW, Washington, DC and The MITRE Corporation, Center for Advanced, Aviation System Development, McLean, VA;George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

With the sophistication and maturity of distributed component-based services and semantic web services, the idea of specification-driven service composition is becoming a reality. One such approach is workflow composition of services that span multiple, distributed web-accessible locations. Given the dynamic nature of this domain, the adaptation of software agents represents a possible solution for the composition and enactment of cross-organizational services. This paper details design aspects of an architecture that would support this evolvable service-based workflow composition. The internal coordination and control aspects of such an architecture is addressed. These agent developmental processes are aligned with industry-standard software engineering processes.