Title :
Agents as Web services
Author :
Huhns, Michael N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., South Carolina Univ., Columbia, SC, USA
Abstract :
Web services are extremely flexible. Most advantageously, a developer of Web services need not know who or what will use the services being provided. The paper discusses current standards for Web services, directory services and the Semantic Web. It considers how agents extend Web services in several important ways.
Keywords :
Internet; information resources; software agents; Internet; Semantic Web; Web services; agent architectures; directory services; software agents; standards; Catalogs; Hospitals; Humans; Insurance; Medical services; Postal services; Semantic Web; Simple object access protocol; Software agents; Web services;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2002.1020332
