Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-Agent Platform

Guo, Mr. Li and Chen-Burger, Dr. Yun-Huh (jessica) and Robertson, Dr. Dave (2005) Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-Agent Platform. In Proceedings Third German Conference on Multi-agent System Technologies LNAI 3550(0302-9743), pages pp. 35-47, Koblenz Germany.

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This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enactment mechanism using the BPEL4WS specification. It demonstrates that a multi-agent protocol (Lightweight Coordination Calculus (LCC)) can be used to interpret a BPEL4WS specification to enable distributed business workflow using web services composition on the multi-agent platform. The key difference between our system and other existing multi-agent based web services composition systems is that with our approach, a business process model(system requirement) can be adopted directly in the multi-agent system, thus reduce the effort on the validation and verification of the interaction protocol (system specification). This approach also provides us with a lightweight way of re-design of large component based systems.

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