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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 31-50 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Decision Support Systems |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 1 SPEC. ISS. |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2005 |
Keywords
- Agent architectures
- Coordination
- UML
- Web services
- Workflow modeling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Information Systems
- Information Systems and Management