Automated Web Service Composition: A Decentralised Multi-agent Approach

Falou, Mohamad El; Bouzid, Maroua; Mouaddib, Abdel‐Illah; Vidal, Thierry

doi:10.1109/wi-iat.2009.68

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“…Some of these approaches deal with agentbased services [20][21][22]. These services are capable to cooperate with the purpose of fulfilling the user needs.…”

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Using Role Knowledge for Service Configuration in SOA-based Enterprise Representation

Sandkuhl

Seigerroth

Smirnov

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE 15th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops

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This work investigates the use of knowledge about organizational roles captured in enterprise models for service configuration. Based on an industrial case, it presents a way to extract a role's information demand and to use this as initial configuration for agent-based services. In addition to the metamodel included in the enterprise modeling language, the use of a common ontology is proposed which captures both, the perspective of information demand and services. The architecture of the agent-based services is following the idea to characterize all enterprise members and components by their functions and to represent them by sets of services provided by them. The main contributions of the paper are (1) to show that a role's information demand is relevant for service configuration, (2) to present a way of extracting information demand from enterprise models, and (3) to extend an approach for SOAbased enterprise representation with information demand.

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“…Some of these approaches deal with agentbased services [20][21][22]. These services are capable to cooperate with the purpose of fulfilling the user needs.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Role Knowledge for Service Configuration in SOA-based Enterprise Representation

Sandkuhl

Seigerroth

Smirnov

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE 15th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops

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“…In [5], a general framework of distributed planning techniques for web services composition is introduced. We describe in this section its basic principles and limits.…”

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“…A recent distributed technique has been proposed in [5] but the planning algorithm is not complete when agents are dependents. In this paper we propose a complete planning algorithm for web services composition.…”

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A Distributed Planning Approach for Web Services Composition

Falou

Bouzid

Mouaddib

et al. 2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Web Services

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The ability to automatically answer a request that requires the composition of a set of web services has received much interest in the last decade, as it supports B2B applications. Planning techniques are used widely in the literature to describe the web services composition problem but they don't scale up well. This weakness is due to the search space explosion caused by the large ranges of data exchanged among services. In addition, it is more interesting to use a decentralised planner because the nature of the problem is distributed.In this paper, we consider a set of web service agents where each agent has a set of services organised in a graph. To respond to a request, agents propose their best local partial plans which are partial paths in the graph. They then coordinate their partial plans to provide the global plan for the submitted request using an algorithm based on a distributed heuristic function. This function ensures the optimality and the completeness of the algorithm. Indeed, it is based not only on the agent capabilities to respond to a request, but also taking into account the plans proposed by other agents.The complexity of the algorithm is polynomial. The experiments show the ability of our approach to find the optimal solutions for automated web services composition taking into account the dependencies betwen the agents.

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“…Semantic and multi-agent based Web Services automatic composing have became new hot spot for Web Services [2][3][4][5][6]. This article discusses the research based on multi-agent and semantic technology which automatically composes directories, document information and document texts in document services.…”

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Study on the Automatic Composition of Document Service Based on Semantic and Multi-agent Method

Meng

Su³

2012

Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture V

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Abstract. This paper proposes a method which composes document services over the Internet automatically based on multi-agent and semantic technology, and discusses the implementation of three document service functions (catalog browsing, document information browsing and document full version downloading) with that method. We use service delegate agent to encapsulate services on the internet; use service purchase agent to decide which service delegate agents should be used and then to generate a composition script describing how these services being purchased should be used; use service provider agent to call these services according to the composition script and merge the results, translate the merged result into the system predefined format, finally return it to the requesting user. By doing so, service provider can simply composite existed services on the internet and provide full functional service.

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Automated Web Service Composition: A Decentralised Multi-agent Approach

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Using Role Knowledge for Service Configuration in SOA-based Enterprise Representation

Using Role Knowledge for Service Configuration in SOA-based Enterprise Representation

A Distributed Planning Approach for Web Services Composition

Study on the Automatic Composition of Document Service Based on Semantic and Multi-agent Method

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