Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering: AAMAS 2008 International Workshop, SOCASE 2008 Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008 Proceedings

by Ryszard Kowalczyk (Editor), Michael N. Huhns (Editor), Matthias Klusch (Editor), Zakaria Maamar (Editor), Quoc Bao Vo (Editor)

Overview

The globaltrendtowardsmore?exible anddynamic businessprocessintegration and automation has led to a convergence of interests between service-oriented computing, semantic technology, and intelligent multiagent systems. In parti- lar the areas of service-oriented computing and semantic technology o?er much interestto the multiagentsystemcommunity, including similaritiesin system- chitectures and provision processes, powerful tools, and the focus on issues such as quality of service, security, and reliability. Similarly, techniques developed in themultiagentsystemsandsemantictechnologypromisetohaveastrongimpact on the fast-growing service-oriented computing technology. Service-oriented computing has emerged as an established paradigm for d- tributed computing and e-business processing. It utilizes services as fundam- tal building blocks to enable the development of agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Services are self-contained, platform-independent software components that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated, and deployed for the purpose of developing distributed applications across large heterogeneous networks such as the Internet. Multiagent systems are also aimed at the development of distributed - plications, however, from a di?erent but complementary perspective. Servi- oriented paradigmsaremainly focused on syntacticaland declarativede?nitions of software components, their interfaces, communication channels, and ca- bilities with the aim of creating interoperable and reliable infrastructures. In contrast, multiagent systems center on the development of reasoning and pl- ning capabilities of autonomous problem solvers that apply behavioral concepts such as interaction, collaboration, or negotiation in order to create ?exible and fault-tolerant distributed systems for dynamic and uncertain environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540799672
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/06/2008
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #5006
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

A Middleware Architecture for Building Contract-Aware Agent-Based Services.- A Knowledge Technologies-Based Multi-agent System for eGovernment Environments.- Towards a Broker Agent in the Semantic Services Environment.- Pattern-Based Semantic Tagging for Ontology Population.- Service-Based Integration of Grid and Multi-Agent Systems Models.- Discovering Homogenous Service Communities through Web Service Clustering.- Collaborative Learning Agents Supporting Service Network Management.- A Multi-Agent Architecture for NATO Network Enabled Capabilities: Enabling Semantic Interoperability in Dynamic Environments (NC3A RD-2376).- An Agent for Asymmetric Process Mediation in Open Environments.- Towards an Emergent Taxonomy Approach for Adaptive Profiling.- Commitment-Based Service Coordination.