Abstract
With the increasing popularity of component-based services and semantic web services, the idea of specification-driven service composition is becoming a reality. With the distribution of these autonomous services, a realizable goal will be the transformation of the Internet into a universal service repository. In such an environment, intelligent agents can play a significant role in configuring and enacting the workflow composition of the atomic distributed services to create entirely new higher-level services. In this work, there is a large-scale agent-based architecture to support such a distributed service environment. Furthermore, we introduce an object-oriented modeling and software engineering approach towards the development, configuration, and operational control of the agents that manage processes in this cross-organizational workflow environment.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 111-128 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Volume | 2940 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2004 |
Keywords
- Agent architectures
- Object-oriented modeling
- Software Process
- UML
- Workflow
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Theoretical Computer Science