Multi-agent Self-Organising Service Composition - Demonstrating the Restrictions of Centralised Approach

Abstract

The loosely coupled, autonomous, network-oriented services provide the building block for the higher abstraction layer of business processes. Service compositions and run-time adaptation according to change in conditions is key to the success of system integration. This work introduces self-organisation as an alternative to pre-programmed techniques (automatic service composition), which usually suffer scalability and performance issues in highly distributed complex systems. The prototype, using JADE platform, is capable of self-organising service composition of a highly modular system and illustrates a service input/output matching algorithm on a case study of the electricity distributed generation domain.