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Agent‐Based Web Services Framework and Development Environment
Author(s) -
Li Yinsheng,
Shen Weiming,
Ghenniwa Hamada
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/j.0824-7935.2004.00260.x
Subject(s) - computer science , web service , key (lock) , service oriented architecture , ws policy , web modeling , semantics (computer science) , service (business) , world wide web , semantic web , software engineering , web development , computer security , web application security , programming language , economy , economics
The current Web services technologies have not exploited sufficient semantics and approaches to dynamic service‐oriented operations in open environments. This paper argues that such operations can be realized through agent‐oriented interaction approaches. The key challenge is to develop an integration framework for the two paradigms, agent‐ and service‐oriented, in a way that capitalizes on their individual strengths. This paper proposes the notion of agent‐based Web services (AWS). We address several critical issues, including the appropriate architectural framework and the structure of its main elements (agent‐based Web services), their meta‐model, supporting technologies, integration method, and implementation approach. An integrated development environment for this framework called SOAStudio has been developed and tested by implementing a case study of a reverse auction e‐marketplace.