A novel web services infrastructure leveraging agent oriented middleware environment for realizing agent oriented information system models

Abstract

Recent industry surveys have shown complete disenchantment with unified modeling language (UML) as the choice of system modeling and development. UML is a standard promoted by industry consortium Object Management Group (OMG) which also keeps it at the center of several other modeling standards (such as SysML), has little room for retreat. This situation lead to a vacuum in the model based enterprise software system development. This work demonstrates a proposed alternative to UML based system development using ontologically natural agent oriented modeling constructs and show cases a realization environment of the agent oriented (information) system models using a middleware technology called as System Incorporating Versatile Autonomous Nodes (SIVAN). SIVAN sustain an ecosystem of agents, organizations and societies. SIVAN is implemented in C#/.Net/WCF technology and makes use of several web services (WS) standards/technologies for communication, eventing, serialization, and security.