A Multi-Agent-Based Service-Oriented Architecture for Inter-Enterprise Cooperation System
Xiang Liu · 2007
Inter-enterprise cooperation system software manages full business processes and allows access to both own and partners' system. Many organizations have discovered that attempting to force collaboration by synthesizing information systems into an inter-enterprise cooperation environment fails. The study of the existing approaches shows that no single solution fulfills all requirements identified for the inter-enterprise cooperation system. One of the basic obstacles is the lack of comprehensive models and tools for inter-enterprise cooperation system as a basis for contracting and standardization. This paper proposes a multi-agent-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) for inter-enterprise cooperation system. In this paper, establishes the basis for transforming the inter-enterprise cooperation business models into multi-agent-based SOA components, utilizes existing web services standards UDDI Specifications and design UDDI Service Agent tool for an extension to UDDI Data Structure and UDDI XML API to be able to associate automatically both prescriptive and descriptive metadata with service entries. Finally, we outline the implementation of a prototype.