Extending Web Services Technologies

by Cavedon, Lawrence; Martin, David; Maamar, Zakaria

• ISBN13: 9780387233437
• ISBN10: 0387233431
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1. Technologies for Business-Driven Information Technology Management	1	(28)
Vijay Machiraju, Claudio Bartolini, Fabio Casati
2. Service-Oriented Computing and Software Agents	29	(24)
Mike P. Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, Paolo Giorgini
3. OWL-S and Agent-Based Systems	53	(26)
David Martin, Mark Burstein, Sheila McIlraith, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
4. A Broker for OWL-S Web Services	79	(20)
Massimo Paolucci, Julien Soudry, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
5. Agent-Based Web Services for Interoperability with the Web-Centric Enterprise	99	(20)
Margaret Lyell
6. KAoS Semantic Policy and Domain Services: An Application of DAML to Web Services-Based Grid Architectures	119	(20)
M. Johnson, P. Chang, R. Jeffers, J. Bradshaw, M. Breedy, L. Bunch, S. Kulkarni, J. Lott, N. Suri, A. Uszok, V.-W. Soo
7. Agent-Based Support for Service Composition	139	(22)
Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah
8. Quality-of-Service Based Grid Communities	161	(26)
Omer F. Rana, Asif Akram, Rashid Al-Ali, David W. Walker, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Amin
9. Enabling Flexible Interaction with Web Services	187	(22)
Liliana Ardissono, Giovanna Petrone, Marino Segnan
10. Composing Workflows of Semantic Web Services	209	(20)
Mikko Laukkanen, Heikki Helin
11. Composing Web Services using an Agent Factory	229	(24)
Debbie Richards, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier, Marta Sabou
12. Brokerage for Mathematical Services in MONET	253	(20)
Walter Barbera-Medina, Julian Padget, Marc Aird
13. Utilizing Web Services in an Agent Based Transaction Model	273	(20)
Tao fin, Steve Goschnick
14. On Building Robust Web Service-Based Applications	293	(18)
Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Michael N. Huhns
Index	311