A self-adaptation scheme for workflow management in multi-agent systems

摘要: Business processes, operational environment, variability of resources and user needs may change from time to time. An effective workflow management software system must be able accommodate these changes. The ability dynamically adapt changes is a key success factor for systems. Holonic multi-agent systems (HMS) provide flexible reconfigurable architecture based on dynamic organization collaboration autonomous agents. Although HMS provides potential changes, the formed in poses challenge development new methodology compose services as needed. This motivates us study propose design self-adaptive architecture. In this paper, we formulate adaptation problem (WAP) an interaction mechanism contract net protocol (CNP) find solution WAP HMS. relies service publication discovery scheme set task agents actor required We viable self-adaptation reconfigure composed cooperation capabilities actors. our present application scenario illustrate idea.