Authors
Li Guo, David Robertson, Y-H Chen-Burger
Publication date
2005/10/12
Conference
IEEE international conference on e-business engineering (ICEBE'05)
Pages
657-664
Publisher
IEEE
Description
This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enactment mechanism using BPEL4WS specification. It demonstrates that a multi-agent protocol (lightweight coordination calculus (LCC)) can be used to interpret a BPEL4WS specification to enable distributed business workflow using Web services composition. The key difference between our system and other existing multi-agent based Web services composition systems is that with our approach, a business process model (system requirement) can be adopted directly in the multi-agent system, thus reduce the effort on the validation and verification of interaction protocol (system specification). This approach also provides us with a lightweight way of re-design of large components based system
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L Guo, D Robertson, YH Chen-Burger - IEEE international conference on e-business …, 2005