The NetAcademy - Managing Internet Peer Review Process in a Multi-agent Framework

This paper explores managing Internet peer review process in a Multi-agent framework. We model the peer review process as a set of relating roles such as author, editor, reviewer, etc. Each role is defined in terms of goals, qualifications, obligations, permission, relations to other roles,protocols, etc. We adopt protocols to govern the interaction between roles. Roles are assigned to agents based on the evaluation of their capabilities. Coordination of workflow is achieved by communication between agents. This work shows us that the methodology for agent oriented and role based workflow management is a powerfulmodeling and design technique.