Managing Heterogeneous Transaction Workflows with Co-operating Agents

Abstract

This paper describes how a set of autonomous computational agents can cooperate in providing coherent management of transaction workflows in environments where there are many diverse information resources. The agents use models of themselves and of the resources that are local to them. Resource models may be the schemas of databases, frame systems of knowledge bases, domain models of business environments, or process models of business operations. Models enable the agents and information resources to use the appropriate semantics when they interoperate. This is accomplished by specifying the semantics in terms of a common ontology. We discuss the contents of the models, where they come from, and how the agents acquire them. We then describe a set of agents for telecommunication service provisioning and show how the agents use such models to cooperate. The agents implement virtual state machines, and interact by exchanging state information. Their interactions produce an implementation of relaxed transaction processing.

Rough sets: Some extensions

“…In such systems again the problem of concept approximation and reasoning about perceptions using concept approximations is one of the challenges nowadays. One should take into account that modeling complex phenomena entails the use of local models (captured by local agents, if one would like to use the multi-agent terminology [25,99]) that next should be fused. This process involves the negotiations between agents [25] to resolve contradictions and conflicts in local modeling.…”

“…One should take into account that modeling complex phenomena entails the use of local models (captured by local agents, if one would like to use the multi-agent terminology [25,99]) that next should be fused. This process involves the negotiations between agents [25] to resolve contradictions and conflicts in local modeling. This kind of modeling will become more and more important in solving complex real-life problems which we are unable to model using traditional analytical approaches.…”

Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components

“…An overview of agent capabilities from a large-scale AOSE/CBSE perspective can be found in books ( [9], [10], [11]), papers ([6], [12], [13], [14], [15]) and web sites (http://agents.umbc.edu/ , http://www.hpl.hp.com/reuse/agents ).…”

Reacting to Unexpected Events and Communicating in Spite of Mixed Ontologies

“…Similar scenarios. [11,12] describe a scenario similar to the one we propose, but with single-threaded code and a common ontology, outlining how a set of autonomous agents cooperate to coherent management of information in environments where there are diverse information sources.…”