Enabling Virtual Organizations with an Agent-Mediated Service Framework

In this paper, an agent-mediated service framework is proposed to ease the construction of virtual organizations of standalone applications. Using this framework, on one hand, service providers can control the usage of their own services, and on the other hand, an agent representing certain stakeholders can dynamically search for capable partners and negotiate with their agents to dynamically form a virtual organization. Incorporating business level service composition language - VINCA into the framework further promotes the participation of business level users in constructing virtual organizations