We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating heterogeneous, autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. A major application area...
As web service technology matures there is growing interest in exploiting workflow techniques to coordinate web services. Bioinformaticians are a user community who combine web re...
Thomas M. Oinn, Matthew Addis, Justin Ferris, Darr...
Service portals are systems which expose a bundle of web services to the user, allowing the specification and subsequent execution of complex tasks defined over these individual...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Anindya Datta, Kaushik Dutta,...
Abstract. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an emerging software engineering paradigm for developing distributed enterprise applications. In this paradigm, Web services ar...
In Service-Oriented MAS middle-agents provide different kinds of matchmaking functionalities. If no adequate services are available for a specific request, a planning functionalit...