Web Services/Agent-Based Model for Inter-Enterprise Collaboration

Web Services technology is a promising computirzgparadigm for applications integration o ver the Internet. Use o f Web services a nd related technologies facilitates the implementation of virtual enterprises across heterogeneous hardware and sofware platforms. This paperproposes a Web services /agentbased model for inter-enterprise collaboration. It presents a multi-agent model in dflerent levels of the entelprise's system architecture to accomplish a suitable selection o f a registered service, to check the status of a process, to realize users' requests, and to react to them in a collaborative way with other agent-based Web services. Moreover, the paper proposes a multi-agent model to define a dynamic worlcjlow capable of coordinating and monitoring the workflow processes.