Agent-Oriented Compositional Approaches to Services-Based Cross-Organizational Workflow
June 2005
M. Brian Blake, The MITRE Corporation
Hassan Gomaa, The MITRE Corporation
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.
Additional Search Keywords
agent architectures, workflow modeling, coordination, UML, Web services
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