is prohibited.
???. Reactivity: Agents perceive their environment and respond in a timely fashion
to changes that occur in it.
???. Proactivity: Agents do not simply act in response to their environment; they
are able to exhibit goal-directed behaviour by taking the initiative (For ethical
reasons, some authors as Murch and Johnson [1998] do not accept that intelligent
agents are self-motivating.).
Business.Intelligent.Agents
Related to business processes, intelligent agents act and react to their environment,
which in this case is the business context, which Rabaey et al. (2003) calls BIAs. A
program (or another intelligent agent) or a human (through a Web application) can
activate the BIA. In the first situation, the BIA can work autonomously; in the other
situation, it will assist a human in the selection and handling of the Web services.
BIA can be used to perform a business process or a part of a process, but business
processes imply business transactions. The BIA should not only be able to build
up transactions but also resolve the problems of stopping an ongoing, not fully
terminated transaction just like BPEL4WS.
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