A Distributed Agent Coalition Algorithm for Web Service Composition

Author

Tong, HongXia ; Cao, Jian ; Zhang, Shensheng ; Li, Minglu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

6-10 July 2009

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

69

Abstract

The topic of agent-based service composition has been experiencing much attention. In this paper, a service agent model is proposed, which integrates the Web service and software agent technologies into a cohesive entity. Based on the service agent model, a distributed agent coalition algorithm for autonomic Web service composition named as DACA is proposed. DACA is fully distributed, which is based on the distributed decision making of the autonomous service agents and addresses the distributed nature of Web service composition. The simulation experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DACA is effective for its ability to produce high quality solution at a low cost of communications.

Keywords

Web services; distributed decision making; software agents; DACA; agent-based service composition; autonomic Web service composition; autonomous service agent model; distributed agent coalition algorithm; distributed decision making; software agent technology; Computational modeling; Computer science; Costs; Distributed decision making; Scalability; Search problems; Software agents; Web services; agent; distributed agent coalition; web servcie composition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services - I, 2009 World Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3708-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.36

Filename

5190767