Integrating E‐Business XML Business Forms and Rule‐Based Agent Technologies
Tod A. Sedbrook · Expert Systems · 2001
This study investigates the role of extensible mark‐up language (XML) business forms and agent‐based computing to support negotiation, management and implementation of inter‐organization business processes. We explore recently proposed standards for representing artificial agent exchanges through rule‐based inference. An XML representational syntax for standard business forms is developed and applied to augment rule‐based agents. A prototype investigates ways to combine knowledge‐based agents and business forms to assist business and customers in Web‐based conference registration. The implementation helps guide customer decisions and the combination of business forms and rules promotes understandability, testability and adaptability of the registration system.