An agent-based approach to specify a Web service-oriented environment

Maamar, Zakaria; Akhter, Fahim; Lahkim, Mohammed

doi:10.1109/enabl.2003.1231381

Cited by 6 publications

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“…The proposed architecture provides flexibility and scalability in the development of different solutions, while offering a set of integrated tools. For the authors in [18], it is widely admitted that web service composition is essential rather than accessing only a unique service. Searching for web services, integrating them into a composite service, triggering and monitoring their implementation are among the operations that users will handle, whereas most of these operations are complex and repetitive, with a large portion adapted to the computer tool and automation.…”

Section: Related Work-web Services and Agents' Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Agents are defined briefly as is a piece of software that acts autonomously to undertake tasks on behalf of users. For [18], it is based on the fact that users only need to specify a high-level goal instead of issuing explicit instructions, leaving the how and when decisions to the agent. The same authors say that software agents exhibit a number of features that make them different from other traditional components including autonomy, goal-orientation, collaboration, flexibility, self-starting, temporal continuity, character, communication, adaptation, and mobility.…”

Section: Purpose Of Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Web Services and Software Agents for Tailorable Groupware Design

Cheaib

Otmane

Mallem

2010

Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies

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We present a new groupware architecture model called UD 3 that explicitly introduces the notion of tailorability in designing collaborative applications. This model is based on the integration of web services and software agents technologies, thus using protocols of each while reinforcing their individual strengths in the context of tailorable groupware design. In our work, web services are dynamically invoked by software agents in order to bring new behaviors, and hence, enhancing the collaboration process by dynamically adapting the services offered in the system to the users' preferences and not the other way around. Web services and agents were originally developed with different standards, thus their integration becomes important in the context of groupware tailorability, giving a totally innovative approach in the area of CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). We apply our model on the DIGITAL OCEAN project for the creation and distribution of multimedia files on the Internet.N. Cheaib ( )

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Section: Related Work-web Services and Agents' Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Purpose Of Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web Services and Software Agents for Tailorable Groupware Design

Cheaib

Otmane

Mallem

2010

Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies

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“…Similar to the above techniques, using OSO to develop applications, it is inevitable to have the initial phase of domain engineering. The major difference between OSO and other techniques is that the approach to model re-quirement specifications is based on the service's point of view (Kaji, Ragab, Ono, & Mori, 2002;Maamar, Akhter, & Lahkim, 2003a;2003b;Perrey & Lycett, 2003;Piccinelli, Salle, & Zirpins, 2001).…”

Section: Domain Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontology and Service Oriented Programming

Tsai

2005

International Journal of Web Services Research

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This paper presents a novel methodology to develop and integrate distributed applications. It starts from analyzing requirement specifications based on a service’s point of view. Thereafter, it is required to describe each service using ontology. The modeling and describing procedures are regarded as a new way to program Ontology and Service Oriented (OSO) programming, and descriptions obtained in the procedure are called OSO code. Moreover, OSO code has the features of interpretability, transformability, comparability, composability, and portability. Those features support code interpretation and generation. In addition, OSO code is also human-readable. This feature minimizes development efforts. Finally, since business logic in OSO code is represented in a machine-understandable format, the procedure of business process integration is completed automatically, based on business logic understanding.

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“…Wassam Zahreddine et al presented an agent-based approach for composite mobile Web services over mobile devices [19]. Some combination schemes of agents and Web services are also presented by other studies [7,6,11,10,14].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%