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Web Services Integration in Multi-Agent Systems

Web Services Integration in Multi-Agent Systems

Davide Guidi, Mauro Gaspari, Giuseppe Profiti
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781615209736|ISBN10: 1615209735|EISBN13: 9781615209743
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-973-6.ch001
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Guidi, Davide, et al. "Web Services Integration in Multi-Agent Systems." Developing Advanced Web Services through P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents: Trends and Innovations, edited by Khaled Ragab, et al., IGI Global, 2010, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-973-6.ch001

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Guidi, D., Gaspari, M., & Profiti, G. (2010). Web Services Integration in Multi-Agent Systems. In K. Ragab, T. Helmy, & A. Hassanien (Eds.), Developing Advanced Web Services through P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents: Trends and Innovations (pp. 1-17). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-973-6.ch001

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Guidi, Davide, Mauro Gaspari, and Giuseppe Profiti. "Web Services Integration in Multi-Agent Systems." In Developing Advanced Web Services through P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents: Trends and Innovations, edited by Khaled Ragab, Tarek Helmy, and Aboul Ella Hassanien, 1-17. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-973-6.ch001

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Abstract

The development of distributed systems is influenced by several paradigms. For example, in the last few years, great emphasis has been placed on Service Orientation. In addition, technologies such as Web services are now considered standard, deployed in common development tools and widely used. However, despite this recent trend, the constantly growing number of powerful personal devices will inevitably revitalize the interest in another paradigm known as Autonomous Agents. Agents are in fact considered one of the main building blocks of the emerging next generation Web infrastructure. Web services are very important resources for agents. Agents should be able to retrieve, execute and compose Web services, providing an intelligent and personalized support to users. On the other hand, agents should also be able to export their functionalities as Web services in order to be fully integrated in the Service Oriented paradigm. In this chapter we present a survey of the current state of the art about Web services integration in open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Considering these approaches, we identify a set of requirements needed to achieve full integration and we present a communication infrastructure, which satisfies these requirements.

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