Beschreibung:
Distributed software systems are becoming evermore prevalent, and we increasingly desire them to operate in heterogeneous, dynamic, and open environments. Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged over recent years as a successful approach for building and maintaining such systems. However, as the environments in which we require systems to operate become more complex, we require software components to have increasing degrees of flexibility, autonomy, and intelligence. Agent-based systems naturally complement SOC by offering the intelligence and reasoning capabilities that are needed.
Provides an overview of the related technologies and insight into state-of-the art research results in the field - both academic and industry developments
Service Advertisement and Discovery.- Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition.- Flexible Workflow Management in Service Oriented Environments.- Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures.- Dependability in Service-Oriented Computing.- Consensus Issues for Service Advertisement and Selection.- Trust and Reputation.- QoS-Aware Service Selection.- Future Directions.