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The ability to deal with incompatibilities of service requesters and providers is a critical factor for achieving interoperability in dynamic open environments. We propose a Process Mediation Agent (PMA) as a solution to the process mediation problem in situations when the requester does not want to reveal its process model completely for privacy reasons. The PMA automatically resolves encountered incompatibilities by generating mappings between processes of the requester and the provider and applies them for the runtime translations. In the PMA algorithms we combine the AI planing and semantic reasoning with recovery techniques and the discovery of appropriate external data mediators.
Research partially supported by the “Information Society” project 1ET100300517 and the Czech Ministry of Education project ME08095.
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Vaculín, R., Neruda, R., Sycara, K. (2008). An Agent for Asymmetric Process Mediation in Open Environments. In: Kowalczyk, R., Huhns, M., Klusch, M., Maamar, Z., Vo, Q.B. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering. SOCASE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79968-9_9
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