Multi-agent cooperation, dynamic workflow and XML for E-Commerce automation

HP Laboratories Technical Report

Volumn , Issue 136, 1999, Pages

  Chen, Qiming ^a   Hsu, Meichun ^a   Dayal, Umeshwar ^a   Griss, Martin ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic agents; Workflow; XML

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TELEVISION; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS; VIDEODISKS; XML;

BELIEFS, DESIRES AND INTENTIONS (BDI); DYNAMIC AGENTS; PLUG AND PLAY ENVIRONMENT; WORKFLOW;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 5444275898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Aglets, "Programming Mobile Agents in Java", IBM, http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/aglet/, 1997.
2. T. Bray, J. Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specification", February 1998, (http://www.w3.org/TR/ REC-xml)
3. A. Chavez and P. Maes, Kasbah: Art Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods, Proc. of PAAM96, 1996.
4. Q. Chen, P. Chundi, Umesh Dayal, M. Hsu, "Dynamic-Agents", International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems, 1999, USA.
5. Q. Chen, P. Chundi, U. Dayal, M. Hsu, "Dynamic-Agents for Dynamic Service Provision", Proc. of 3rd Int Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98), 1998, USA.
6. Q. Chea and Umesh Dayal, "Failure Recovery across Transaction Hierarchies", Proc. of 13th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-97), 1997, UK.
7. Q. Chen and Umesh Dayal, "A Transactional Nested Process Management System", Proc. of ICDE-96, 1996.
8. CORBA, "CORBA Facilities Architecture Specification", OMG Doc 97-06-15, 1997.
9. U. Dayal and M. Hsu and R. Ladin, "Organizing Long Running Activities with Triggers and Transactions", Proc. ACM-SIGMOD'90, 1990.
10. U. Dayal and M. Hsu and R. Ladia, "A Transactional Model for long Running Activities", Proc. VLDB'91, 1991.
11. Document Object Model, http://www.w3.org/DOM/
12. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. McKay, R. McEntire, "KQML as an Agent-Communication Language", Proc. CIKM94, 1994.
13. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents(FIPA)- FIPA97 Agent Specification, http://www.fipa.org/
14. R. J. Glushko, J. M. Tenenbaum and B. Meltzer, "An XML Framework for Agent-based E-Commerce", CACM 42(8), March, 1999.
15. M. Griss, G. Bolcer, L. Osterweil, Q. Chen, R. Kessler "Agents and Workflow - An Intimate Connection, or Just Friends?", Panel, TOOLS99 USA, Aug 1999.
16. R. S. Gray. Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system. Dr. Dobbs Journal, 22(3): 18-27, 1997.
17. N.R. Jennings, P. Faratin, MJ. Johnson, P O'Brien & ME Wiegan, "Using Intelligent Agents to Manage Business Processes". Proc. of PAAM96, U.K., 1996, pp. 245-360.
18. N. R. Jennings (1999) "Agent-based Computing: Promise and Perils" Proc. IJCAI-99, Sweeden. 1429-1436.
19. T. John, Intelligent Agent Library/Factory, release 4 (http://www.bitpix-com)
20. P. Maes, R. H. Guttman and A. G. Moukas, "Agents that Buy and Sell", CACM 42(8), March, 1999.
21. S.A. Moore, "KQML and FLBC: Contrasting Agent Communication Languages," proceedings. 32nd Hawaii international conference on system sciences, 1998
22. A.G. Moukas, R. H. Guttman and P. Maes, "Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce: An MIT Media Laboratory Perspective", Proc. of International Conference on Electronic Commerce, 1998.
23. Odyssy, "Agent Technology: Odyssey", General Magic, http://www.genmagic.com, 1997.
24. B. Perry, M. Talor, A. Unruh, "Information Aggregation and Agent Interaction Patterns in InfoSleuth", Proc. of CooPIS99, UK, 1999.
25. Voyager, "Voyager Core Package Technical Overview", Object Space, http://www.objectspace.com/voyager/technical_white_papers-html, 1997.