Agent-oriented compositional approaches to services-based cross-organizational workflow

With the sophistication and maturity of distributed component-based services and semantic web services, the idea of specification-driven service composition is becoming a reality. With relevance to this work is the workflow composition of services as they span multiple, distributed web-accessible locations. Given the dynamic nature of this domain, the autonomy and adaptation of software agents represent a possible solution for the composition and enactment of cross-organizational services. In this work, we address several aspects of such a domain. We detail design aspects of an architecture that would support this evolvable service-based workflow composition. We discuss the internal coordination and control aspects of such an architecture. A further overarching concern is the alignment of agent developmental processes with current industry standard software engineering processes.