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

M. Brian Blake; Hassan Gomaa

doi:10.1016/j.dss.2004.04.003

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

M. Brian Blake, Hassan Gomaa

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	31-50
Number of pages	20
Journal	Decision Support Systems
Volume	40
Issue number	1 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2004.04.003
State	Published - Jul 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Agent architectures
Coordination
UML
Web services
Workflow modeling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Information Systems
Information Systems and Management

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