Establishing Interoperability of Coordination Protocols in ad-hoc Inter-Organizational Collaborations
ISBN
978-1-84628-151-8
Type
book section
Date Issued
2005
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Konstantas, Dimitri
Bourrieres, Jean-Paul
Léonard, Michel
Boudjlida, Nacer
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
This paper presents the definition of a setup process that has to be performed before an ad hoc inter-organizational collaboration can start. Within this process agreement on collaboration content can be achieved as well as an overall coordination protocol can be constructed which defines a chronological order of tasks out of single protocols that describe the information exchanges that are necessary to coordinate given tasks. Our goal is to define a component-based architecture that implements this process and uses the outcomes to dynamically configure itself. Using this architecture it will be possible to technically support a wide range of ad hoc collaboration scenarios as long as mismatches can be resolved. Due to the extensibility of component-based architectures it will be possible to easily deploy additional components implementing for example a new coordination standard for transactions which then can be used as one possible assignment to a protocol vector position. Future work therefore is twofold: the presented setup process has to be refined and implemented, and the component model as well as the composition model for the architecture has to be defined. For negotiation, compatibility testing, and mediator generation previous work in the fields of agent communication and component interoperability will be further examined and integrated.
Language
German
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications
Publisher
Springer London
Publisher place
Goldaming
Start page
123
End page
133
Pages
11
Event Title
Interop-Esa 2005 - First International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications
Event Location
Geneva, Switzerland
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
224481