[agents] WADE (Workflow and Agent Development Environment) Tutorial at AAMAS 2008

[Caire Giovanni]

We are pleased to announce that a half-day tutorial on WADE - Workflow
and Agent Development Environment - will be held at AAMAS 2008
(http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/tutorials.html
<http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/tutorials.html#T4> ). WADE is the
main evolution of JADE and adds to it the ability to define system
logics according to the workflow metaphor. WADE is not just an add-on,
but a complete platform (built on top of JADE) providing advanced
administration and fault tolerance mechanisms and enabling a group of
agents to cooperatively execute complex tasks defined as workflow. WADE
will be released in Open Source in April 2008 together with version 3.6
of JADE. Early registration period for the tutorial closes the 3rd of
March.

 

Nowadays workflows are mostly adopted in BPM (Business Process
Management) environments where they are used to represent business
processes and orchestrate existing systems typically (but not
necessarily) accessible by means of Web Services-based interfaces. The
main challenge in WADE is to bring the workflow approach from the
business process level to the level of system internal logics. That is,
even if in principle it could be used for that purpose too, WADE does
not target high level orchestration of services provided by different
systems, but the implementation of the internal behaviour of each single
system. Each agent embeds a micro-workflow engine and a complex process
can be carried out by a set of cooperating agents each one executing a
piece of the process. Attendees will initially get an overview of the
advantages of the workflow metaphor and the requirements that a system
must meet to make its adoption fruitful at the level of system logics
definition. After that they will start familiarizing with the WADE
platform and understand how to structure a WADE-based application. In
the core part of the tutorial attendees will learn how to create
workflows by means of WOLF (the Service Creation Environment provided by
WADE) and to make agents execute them. Particular attention will be
given to the mechanisms that WADE provides to make the workflow approach
suitable for system logics definition. Finally an overview of advanced
features such as transactions support will be given and the evolutions
planned for the near future will be presented.

 

Apologies for any duplicate received.

 

Giovanni Caire

 

 

 

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