Addressing autonomy and interoperability in breeding environments

Abstract

Modem networked enterprises can preserve their competitive edge only by adopting a modern architecture for their computing systems, and thus, become agile with respect to changes in computing technologies, for pressures for modifications in external business processes, and for management of simultaneous and changing memberships in various business networks. Establishment of virtual enterprises is an essential trend and in progress of merging into research results of agent technologies and Service-oriented Computing. This paper describes the meta-information and agents needed for verifying interoperability during the breeding process for virtual enterprises. Taken together with operational time monitoring, the facilities provide type-safety across the bindings between members of the community. Behind the discussion is a set of prototype implementations of middleware facilities.