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Extending Web Services Technologies

The Use of Multi-Agent Approaches

  • Presents significant combined developments in related fields of Web services and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Contains contributions written by leading international researchers and professionals from both the Web Services and Multi-Agent Systems community

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Technologies for Business-Driven Information Technology Management

    • Vijay Machiraju, Claudio Bartolini, Fabio Casati
    Pages 1-27
  3. Service-Oriented Computing and Software Agents

    • Mike P. Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, Paolo Giorgini
    Pages 29-52
  4. OWL-S and Agent-Based Systems

    • David Martin, Mark Burstein, Sheila McIlraith, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
    Pages 53-77
  5. A Broker for OWL-S Web Services

    • Massimo Paolucci, Julien Soudry, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
    Pages 79-98
  6. Kaos Semantic Policy and Domain Services

    • M. Johnson, P. Chang, R. Jeffers, J. Bradshaw, M. Breedy, L. Bunch et al.
    Pages 119-138
  7. Agent-Based Support for Service Composition

    • Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah
    Pages 139-160
  8. Quality-of-Service Based Grid Communities

    • Omer F. Rana, Asif Akram, Rashid Al -Ali, David W. Walker, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Amin
    Pages 161-186
  9. Enabling Flexible Interaction with Web Services

    • Liliana Ardissono, Giovanna Petrone, Marino Segnan
    Pages 187-208
  10. Composing Workflows of Semantic Web Services

    • Mikko Laukkanen, Heikki Helin
    Pages 209-228
  11. Composing Web Services Using an Agent Factory

    • Debbie Richards, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier, Marta Sabou
    Pages 229-251
  12. Brokerage for Mathematical Services in Monet

    • Walter Barbera-Medina, Julian Padget, Marc Aird
    Pages 253-272
  13. Utilizing Web Services in an Agent Based Transaction Model

    • Tao Jin, Steve Goschnick
    Pages 273-291
  14. On Building Robust Web Service-Based Applications

    • Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Michael N. Huhns
    Pages 293-310
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 311-320

About this book

Extending Web Services Technologies addresses the rapidly growing impact of Multi-Agent Systems on web services tools and techniques. In particular, the book addresses the potential for MAS techniques to impact the difficult challenges that must be tackled for web services technology to realize its promises. The area of web services offers the multi-agent community exciting research possibilities, including similarities in system architectures, powerful tools, and a focus on issues such as trust and reliability. Likewise, techniques developed in the multi-agent research community promise to have a strong impact on this fast growing technology.

The contents contain contributions by leading international researchers and professionals from both the web services and Multi-Agent Systems community. Topics include semantic web services and associated standards, architectures integrating agents and services, transactions, authorization, and service composition.

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"This collection of 14 contributions presents a range of issues in the overlap between Web services and software agents. … offers a sense of the broader potential of agent technology to suggest solutions to problems of robust Web services specification and implementation. … The volume could be useful to have in the library of an academic or industrial research group where people are working on problems of Web services orchestration … . In summary, this is a potentially useful collection representing current work … ." (L. Sonenberg, Computing Reviews, April, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • CSLI, Stanford University, Stanford

    Lawrence Cavedon

  • College of Info. Systems, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Zakaria Maamar

  • SRI International, Menlo Park

    David Martin

  • School of CSE, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Boualem Benatallah

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