Title :
An Agent-Based Approach for Distributed Execution of Composite Web Services
Author :
Micillo, Rosa Anna ; Venticinque, Salvatore ; Mazzocca, Nicola ; Aversa, Rocco
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng. via Roma, Second Univ. of Neaples, Aversa
Abstract :
Over the last years, service composition has been considered as the main way to enable business-to-business collaborations. Orchestration and choreography are the two main approaches to address service composition. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach for orchestrated execution of complex business processes, in order to enhance the potential of Web Services composition. We present SCOTT, an agent-based Service COmposiTion Tool, and we focus on the execution process of a composite service and on advantages of a decentralized execution engine. Our engine is a peer-to-peer application architecture wherein agents are distributed across multiple computer systems and it appears to its users as a single system.The clever part of this engine are the actuator modules, which collaborate with other ones, in order to execute a complex service in a distributed manner.
Keywords :
Web services; business data processing; multi-agent systems; open systems; peer-to-peer computing; software agents; SCOTT; actuator modules; agent-based Service COmposiTion Tool; business process; business-to-business collaboration; choreography; composite Web services; decentralized execution engine; distributed Web service execution; interoperability; orchestration; peer-to-peer application architecture; Actuators; Application software; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Containers; Distributed computing; Peer to peer computing; Search engines; Web and internet services; Web services; choreography; mobile agents; orchestration; soa; web services composition;
Conference_Titel :
Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2008. WETICE '08. IEEE 17th
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3315-5
DOI :
10.1109/WETICE.2008.20
