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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.
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Blake, M.B., Gomaa, H. (2004). Object-Oriented Modeling Approaches to Agent-Based Workflow Services. In: Lucena, C., Garcia, A., Romanovsky, A., Castro, J., Alencar, P.S.C. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II. SELMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24625-1_7
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