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The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (CEC/EEE'06)
p. 43
Agent-Supported Web Service Composition for Supply Chain Management
Minhong Wang, City University of Hong Kong
William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University
Jiming Liu, University of Windsor
Zongwei Lou, University of Hong Kong
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Web service composition requires allocating
suitable resources to a set of services that constitute a
composite service. The problem is complicated by the
fact that the availability of resources may be
uncertain and change over time, and the constraints
of component services may not be completely known
in advance. It needs the ability to rapidly and
dynamically identify suitable resources and
coordinate them under various constraints. In this
paper, an agent mediated coordination framework for
web service composition is proposed in the context of
e-supply chain management (e-SCM). Global
constraints to be satisfied by the composite service
are first translated into local constraints of its
component services. Service brokering agents
dedicated to discovery of component services interact
autonomously with each others for refining the local
constraints based on the candidate services’
instantaneous status until a sufficiently good
composition is identified. Although presented in the
context of supply chain management, this framework
is applicable to other problem areas where a set of
services are composed as a result of a large resource
repository to be searched, scheduled and coordinated,
especially in a real-time fashion.
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Citation:
Minhong Wang, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu, Zongwei Lou,
"Agent-Supported Web Service Composition for Supply Chain Management,"
cec-eee,
p. 43,
The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (CEC/EEE'06),
2006
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