Article ID: | iaor20061211 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 31 |
End Page Number: | 50 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
Authors: | Blake M. Brian, Gomaa Hassan |
Keywords: | Web services, agent technology |
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 than 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.