@InProceedings{goradia06a,
  author =	 {Hrishikesh Goradia},
  title =	 {Towards {B2B} Automation Via Coalition Formation
                  Among Service Agents},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the {IBM} {PhD} Symposium at the
                  Fourth International Conference on Service Oriented
                  Computing},
  pages =	 {43--48},
  year =	 2006,
  abstract =	 {The modeling and enactment of business processes is
                  being recognized as key to modern information
                  management. However, current approaches are
                  inadequate for adoption in open, dynamic
                  environments such as the Internet. These approaches
                  take a logically centralized view of processes
                  instead of treating the individual business entities
                  (realized via services) as peers. Also, the efforts
                  are directed towards the low-level implementation
                  issues of the composite services, rather than
                  towards the interactions between the businesses - a
                  higher level of abstraction appropriate for open
                  systems. Consequently, existing approaches fail to
                  adequately accommodate the autonomy, heterogeneity,
                  and dynamism of the business partners in a
                  process. Our research focus is to facilitate the
                  enactment of Internet-based workflows by addressing
                  the limitations in the current approaches and
                  standardization efforts towards the coordination and
                  composition of Web services. We focus on the
                  coordination protocols (business protocols), which
                  model the intractions between various (simple or
                  composite) Web services, and propose a multiagent
                  approach for enacting the corresponding business
                  processes. We show that such a mechanism preserves
                  the essential properties of the business partners in
                  open, dynamic environments like the Internet.},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/papers/goradia06a.pdf},
  keywords =	 {multiagent workflow}
}