Multi-agent transactions for Web-based design activities

Web-based engineering design activities require fault tolerance and concurrent access to shared resources such as databases and Web servers. Such activities are generally dynamic, cooperative, long-lived, interactive, and non-prescriptive. We propose a new multi-agent transaction model, which is based on extended transactions and multi-agent technologies. The novelty of this model is that it automatically customises transactions to the requirements of the design activities. In addition, this model is believed to improve concurrency and fault tolerance, facilitate interaction and co-operation of participating systems involved in design activities.

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