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Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava
The design and implementation of a dependable system that provides a composition and execution environment for distributed applications whose executions could span arbitrarily large durations is described. The objective is to create a framework for complex service provisioning. By complex service provisioning we primarily mean the ability to compose a given service out of existing ones as well as the ability to exercise dynamic control over the execution of the service. The approach taken is centred around building middleware services based on integration of workflow and agent technologies. The platform enables these two systems to interact via CORBA services. Service behaviour and service deployment are represented as workflow processes. Individual tasks that make up the workflow would be legacy applications, specially created tasks, and agent applications. Agents are able to create workflow instances, receive results from workflows and send inputs to workflows. This enables agents to act as user agents capable of managing workflows on behalf of users.
Author(s): Shrivastava SK, Bellissard L, Féliot D et al
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 4th IEEE/OMG International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2000)
Year of Conference: 2000
Pages: 38-47
Date deposited: 05/12/2011
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDOC.2000.882342
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2000.882342
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 0769508650
