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Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV (COIN 2008)

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Abstract

In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their own solutions to distributed computation. As both Web services and Grid computing are based in the concept of service orientation, where all computation is split in independent, decoupled services, there is an opportunity for MAS researchers to test and extend their mechanisms and techniques in these emerging technologies. In this paper we describe a way to adapt the Harmon IA framework to be applied in highly regulated Web services and Grid computing scenarios. To do so we include a provenance mechanism as part of our norm enforcement mechanisms, which can be integrated into a SOA Governance workflow. We will show with an example how provenance allows the observation of both service interactions and (optionally) extra information about meaningful events in the system that cannot be observed in the interaction messages.

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Javier Vázquez-Salceda & Sergio Alvarez-Napagao

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  1. Multi-agent Systems Department, EMS Mines Saint-Etienne, 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023, Saint-Etienne Cedex 02, France

    Jomi Fred Hübner

  2. Purdue University, 70907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Eric Matson

  3. ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, 42023, Saint-Etienne, Cedex 02, France

    Olivier Boissier

  4. Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, 3508TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Virginia Dignum

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Vázquez-Salceda, J., Alvarez-Napagao, S. (2009). Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions. In: Hübner, J.F., Matson, E., Boissier, O., Dignum, V. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV . COIN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00443-8_13

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