Technical Report Details
| Date |
18-1-2006 |
| Number |
DISI-TR-06-01 |
| Title |
From AUML to WS-BPEL |
| Authors |
Giovanni Casella, Viviana Mascardi |
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| E-mail |
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| Link |
http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MascardiV/Download/DISI-TR-06-01.pdf |
| Abstract |
The Web Services (WS) technology is currently gaining a
wider and wider consensus. The features that characterise
WSs, namely heterogeneity, distribution, openness, highly
dynamic interactions, are some among the key characteristics
of another emerging technology, that of intelligent
agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs).
In this paper we discuss the relationships between WSs
and intelligent agents and we propose our point of view,
namely that agents provide both the coordination framework
and the engineering metaphor that can be exploited
for realising complex applications based on the WSs infrastructure.
Based on our claim, we suggest to use an agentoriented
extension of UML 2.0 named AUML to model
agent interaction protocols, and a business protocol execution
language for WSs named WS-BPEL, to publish the
specification of these protocols on the Web. To demonstrate
the feasibility of our approach, we have designed and implemented
a tool that automatically creates WS-BPEL and
WSDL specifications of interaction protocols starting from
AUML visual diagrams. |
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