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

Author

Maamar, Zakaria ; Akhter, Fahim ; Lahkim, Mohammed

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Syst., Zayed Univ., Dubai, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 June 2003

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

49

Abstract

We presented an overview of an approach that uses software agents in the specification of a Web service-oriented environment. The approach suggests three levels: intrinsic; organizational/functional; and behavior. The three levels are applied to agents and services in a different way. During the agentification of services, two types of software agents have been suggested: user-agent; and provider-agent. User-agents are associated with user-domains and provider-agents are associated with provider-domain.

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; formal specification; software agents; Web service-oriented environment; agent-based approach; behavior level; functional level; intrinsic level; organizational level; provider agents; provider domains; provider-agent system; service agentification; software agents; user domains; user-agent system; Assembly; Automation; Collaboration; Computerized monitoring; Educational institutions; Information systems; Information technology; Mobile computing; Portals; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2003. WET ICE 2003. Proceedings. Twelfth IEEE International Workshops on

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1963-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.2003.1231381

Filename

1231381