Dynamic service matchmaking among agents in open information environments

Service composition environments enable people to create, manage, share services, and compose atomic services for their own requirements. Since users and service entity hosts are always distributed in locations in such environments, service responses ...

The aim of service discovery is to find services that satisfy user requests in a precise and effective manner. An important aspect of service discovery is service matchmaking, which constitutes the mechanism to map appropriate services to requests. ...

Multi-Agent Systems are a promising way of dealing with large complex problems. However, it is not yet clear just how much complexity or pre-existing structure individual agents must have to allow them to work together effectively. In this paper, we ...