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Issue title: Special Issue on Agent-oriented Software Development Methodologies
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Mei, Hong | Sun, Xi | Liu, Xuanzhe | Jiao, Wenpin | Huang, Gang
Affiliations: Institute of Software, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. E-mail: meih@cs.pku.edu.cn, sunxi@cs.pku.edu.cn, liuxzh@cs.pku.edu.cn, jwp@cs.pku.edu.cn, huanggang@cs.pku.edu.cn | Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX33 1HX, UK
Abstract: Business processes built from web services need a more adaptable composition solution. In this paper, an approach based on agents is proposed to control the executions of business processes via agent behavior rules, which can be generated automatically and modified dynamically to enable the adaptations of business process. In the approach, the adaptations of the business process are specified in independent adaptation units and agents can load and interpret user-defined adaptation units at runtime. Thus, the executions of business processes can be adapted dynamically. This paper also describes a running support of lightweight agents on a reflective middleware, on which agents can be generated automatically to compose web service to support adaptable business processes according to the specifications of business processes and the adaptation units.
Keywords: Web service, process, adaptation, agent
DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2006-2406
Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 383-399, 2006
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