An approach to agent-based service composition and its application to mobile business processes

Author

Berger, Michael ; Bouzid, Makram ; Buckland, Mark ; Lee, Habin ; Lhuillier, Nicolas ; Olpp, Dieter ; Picault, Jérôme ; Shepherdson, John

Author_Institution

Siemens AG, Muenchen, Germany

Volume

2

Issue

3

fYear

2003

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

206

Abstract

This paper describes an architecture model for multiagent systems that was developed in the European project LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform). Its main feature is a set of generic services that are implemented independently of the agents and can be installed into the agents by the application developer in a flexible way. Moreover, two applications using this architecture model are described that were also developed within the LEAP project. The application domain is the support of mobile, virtual teams for the German automobile club ADAC and for British Telecommunications.

Keywords

business data processing; mobile computing; multi-agent systems; ADAC; British Telecommunications; European project LEAP; German automobile club; Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform; agent-based service composition; architecture model; generic services; mobile business processes; multiagent systems; virtual teams; Automobiles; Humans; Internet; Mobile handsets; Multiagent systems; Personal digital assistants; Programmable control; Radio access networks; Testing; Virtual groups;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1233

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMC.2003.1233526

Filename

1233526