Conversation Support
for agents, e-business, and component integration

Conference Papers

• Conversational Browser, Santhosh Kumaran, James E Hanson, Prabir Nandi, Terry Heath and Yashodhara Patnaik. Submitted to the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'03).
• Multi-Agent Implementations of Asymmetric Protocol for Bilateral Negotiations, James E. Hanson, Gerald Tesauro, Jeffrey O. Kephart, and Edward C. Snible. Submitted to the Fourth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'03).
• Conversation-enabled Web Services for Agents and e-business, James E. Hanson, Prabir Nandi, and David W. Levine, Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Computing (IC-02), CSREA Press, 2002, pp.791-796.
• Conversation support for Business Process Integration, James E. Hanson, Prabir Nandi, and Santhosh Kumaran, Proceedings 6th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC-2002), IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 65-74.

Others: whitepapers, drafts, work-in-progress

• cpXML: Conversation Policy XML. Discussion of the draft XML dialect for conversation policies.
• Extending J2C for Conversation Support. Describes the way in which the Java Connector Architecture was extended to support conversations.
• Dynamic e-Business Using BPEL4WS, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, and Conversation Support for Web Services. Position paper on how Conversation Support for Web Services complements other Web Services technologies such as BPEL4WS, WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction to deliver on the promise of dynamic e-Business.