USING INTERACTION PROTOCOLS IN DISTRIBUTED CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES

Santtu Toivonen, Tapio Pitkäranta, Heikki Helin, Jung Ung Min

2004

Abstract

We present an interaction protocol based approach for facilitating distributed construction processes. In our approach, software agents represent various participants of a construction project. Examples of such are contractor, subcontractor, and supplier. These agents are supposed to communicate according to predefined interaction protocols. Should an agent be unaware of some protocol needed in the process, it benefits from adopting it. We approach this problem with interaction protocol descriptions serialized in a commonly agreed upon format and design our agents so that they can adapt to the descriptions. We present a scenario in the field of construction industry, where the project participants do not know in advance how to communicate with each other. However, by adapting to the interaction protocol descriptions provided by the respective parties they are eventually able to interact.

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in Harvard Style

Toivonen S., Pitkäranta T., Helin H. and Ung Min J. (2004). USING INTERACTION PROTOCOLS IN DISTRIBUTED CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 344-349. DOI: 10.5220/0002599503440349


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Santtu Toivonen and Tapio Pitkäranta and Heikki Helin and Jung Ung Min},
title={USING INTERACTION PROTOCOLS IN DISTRIBUTED CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={344-349},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002599503440349},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - USING INTERACTION PROTOCOLS IN DISTRIBUTED CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Toivonen S.
AU - Pitkäranta T.
AU - Helin H.
AU - Ung Min J.
PY - 2004
SP - 344
EP - 349
DO - 10.5220/0002599503440349