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Workflow coordination for service-oriented multiagent systems

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Jiangbo Dang,

Jingshan Huang,

Michael N. HuhnsAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Article No.: 249, Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/1329125.1329426

Published: 14 May 2007 Publication History

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From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to model a workflow and coordinate their execution of it. From a service-oriented computing viewpoint, a workflow can be represented as a set of services and a specification for the control and data flows among these services to address some business needs. As a formal declarative knowledge representation model, ontology is used as a basis for agent-based workflow execution and coordination. This paper presents methodologies to map an Ontology Web Language for Services (OWL-S) representation for a workflow to a CPN graph, a graphical and mathematical modeling tool for describing and analyzing information processing systems, and then infer commitments and causal relationships from the CPN graph. We provide an example scenario to describe our algorithms.

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Workflow coordination for service-oriented multiagent systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program semantics

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AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2007

1585 pages

ISBN:9788190426275

DOI:10.1145/1329125

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Edmund Durfee
University of Michigan
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Makoto Yokoo
Kyushu University
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Michael Huhns
University of South Carolina
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

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Zhang JKuc DLu S(2014)ConfuciusIEEE Transactions on Services Computing10.1109/TSC.2012.137:1(2-17)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TSC.2012.13
Vidal JLama MBugarín A(2012)Toward the use of Petri nets for the formalization of OWL-S choreographiesKnowledge and Information Systems10.1007/s10115-011-0451-z32:3(629-665)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2012
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Dang JToklu CHampel KEnke U(2008)Human Workflows via Document-Driven Process ChoreographyProceedings of the 2008 International MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies10.1109/MCETECH.2008.15(25-33)Online publication date: 23-Jan-2008
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