The present trend of enterprise computing is towards net- worked business; thus there is a high demand on a new layer of global infrastructure that facilitates inter-enterprise collaboration management and provides utilities for interoperability. We addresses the larger prob- lem of collaboration management in cases where the collaboration is dy- namically composed of business services from independent organisations. The Pilarcos architecture shows how generic collaboration management utilities can support, with a significant level of automation, the whole lifecycle of a collaboration from service selection with interoperability checking, negotiation with trust decisions and commitment to the op- erational phase, monitoring, and breach management. We analyse the multi-tier agent architecture nature of the open service ecosystems, and collaborative management of inter-enterprise collaborations within them.
['Lea Kutvonen']
Multi-tier agent architecture for open service ecosystems