Service-Centric Brokering for Dynamic e-business Communities

Overview

This project focuses on the development of protocols for brokering-based agent communities in e-business. The global market is driving e-business to become service-centric, offering highly modular e-services that can be flexibly and dynamically composed into rapidly deployable e-Businesses (See the The Internet Enterprise: Composable e-Service Project). This trend is giving rise to a new set of requirements for negotiation-based, autonomous, and intelligent computing. It is, therefore, expected that in the near future, e-Services will be designed and implemented as software agents. In preparation for the proliferation of agent-based e-business, we are developing a suite of protocols for self-organizing agent communities. The protocols are based on a three-tier architecture of agents, brokers, and superbrokers. We have implemented a simple protoype that captures some of these ideas, using Java and JKQML. We are currently working on superbrokering protocol for E2E communication and extending UDDI using our community concepts. Services offered by devices can also be brokered using these communities.

People

  • Dr. Sumi Helal
  • Dr. Stanley Su
  • Jie Meng
  • Arun Jagatheesan
  • Jingting Lu

Publications

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  • A. Jagatheesan and A. Helal, "Sangam: Universal Interop Protocols for E-service Brokering Communities using Private UDDI Nodes". Submitted to the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications - ISCC'2003, to be held in KEMER - ANTALYA, TURKEY, June/July 2003 (pdf)
  • A. Helal, M. Wang, A. Jagatheesan and R. Krithivasan, "Brokering Based Self Organizing E-Service Communities". Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) With an Emphasis on Electronic Commerce, March 26-28, 2001 Dallas, Texas (pdf)
  • A. Helal, M. Wang, and A. Jagatheesan, "Service-Centric Brokering in Dynamic E-Business Agent Communities," Journal of ElectronicCommerce Research (JECR), Baltzer Science Publisher, 2001 (pdf)
  • J. Meng, A. Helal, and Stanley Su, "An Ad-Hoc Workflow Architecture Based on Mobile Agent and Rule-Based Processing," The special session on Software Agent-Oriented Workflows, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000. pp. 245-251 (pdf)