Automatic Generation of Executable Behavior: A Protocol-Driven Approach

Hahn, Christian; Zinnikus, Ingo; Warwas, Stefan; Fischer, Klaus

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19208-1_8

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“…Finally, models of organization (roles and agents) of each agent, and the behavior of the agents (plans, rules, and services) are integrated, allowing the generation of the agent code. A proposal for the design of interaction protocols based on a language independent modeling platform for the domain of multi-agent systems is described in [27]. First, in an interaction protocol view, used to define the behavior of the agent.…”

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Software Agent Architecture for Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations

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Chiotti

Villarreal

2014

Journal of Applied Research and Technology

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The growing importance of cooperation among organizations, as a result of globalization, current market opportunities and technological advances, encourages organizations to dynamically establish inter-organizational collaborations. These collaborations are carried out by executing collaborative business processes among the organizations. In this work we propose an agent-based software architecture for managing inter-organizational collaborations. Two types of agents are provided: the Collaboration Administrator Agent and the Process Administrator Agent. The former allows organizations setting up collaborations. The latter allows organizations executing collaborative business processes. A Colored Petri Net model specifying the role, which an organization fulfills in a collaborative process, is used to carry out the behavior of the Process Administrator Agent that represents the organization. Planning and execution of the actions of the Process Administrator Agents are driven by a Colored Petri Net machine embedded to them. Thus, Process Administrator Agents do not require to have defined at design-time the protocols they can support. In addition, we propose a model-driven development method for generating Colored Petri Net models from a collaborative process model defined as interaction protocol. Finally, an implementation of the agent-based software architecture and methods based on model-driven development are presented.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Agent Architecture for Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations

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Chiotti

Villarreal

2014

Journal of Applied Research and Technology

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“…TRABAJOS RELACIONADOS El desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas para la ejecución de procesos colaborativos mediante plataformas basadas en agentes de software, utilizando en algunos casos los principios de MDD [32][33][34], se han estudiado previamente en algunos trabajos de investigación. En [32] se describe un enfoque para el diseño y ejecución de procesos colaborativos basados en una arquitectura de agentes de software, utilizando los principios de MDD.…”

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“…En [34] se describe una propuesta para el diseño de protocolos de interacción basado en un lenguaje de modelado independiente de la plataforma para el dominio de sistemas multi-agente, llamada DSML4MAS [35], y hace uso de los principios de MDD para la generación de código. En primer lugar, en una vista de interacción se define el protocolo de interacción, utilizado para generar el comportamiento del agente.…”

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Software Agents for Management Dynamic Inter-Organizational Collaborations

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Chiotti²,

Villarreal³

2014

IEEE Latin Am. Trans.

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The globalization, modern markets, as well as new organizational management philosophies and advances in Information and Communications Technologies, encourage organizations to establish collaboration networks or interorganizational collaborations. In this paper we propose a technology solution based on software agents which allows supporting the management of collaborative business processes in environments dynamic inter-organizational collaborations. First, we propose a software agent platform that integrates in agent specification's the notions of Belief-Desire-Intention agent architecture with functionalities of process-aware information systems. The platform enables organizations to negotiate collaborations agreements in electronic format to establish dynamic inter-organizational collaborations and define the collaborative processes to be executed. Second, we propose a methodology that includes methods based on Model-Driven Development, which enable the generation of executable process models and the code of process-oriented agents, derived from conceptual models of collaborative processes. This methodology and methods are implemented and automated by software agents that enable the generations of these implementation artifacts, at run-time of the platform. Therefore, the platform enables the automatic generation of the technology solution that requires each organization to execute the agreed collaborative processes, where the generated artifacts are built and initialized in the platform, allowing the implementation and execution of these processes. In this way, the proposed agent-based platform allows to establish collaboration among heterogeneous and autonomous organizations focusing in the process-oriented integration.

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