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Web Services from an Agent Perspective

Web Services from an Agent Perspective
Web Services from an Agent Perspective
The growth of automated services on the Web has facilitated the emergence of a new software development paradigm. This paradigm is based on the composition of disparate services to achieve large-scale, reusable solutions for diverse domains. Borrowing heavily from research in object-oriented software engineering and multiagent systems, the Web service paradigm supports the construction, publication, provision, integration, and utilization of course-grained, software services in open, heterogeneous environments. This article examines this Web service paradigm from an open multiagent systems perspective and contrasts the formally grounded, knowledge-centric view of agents with the pragmatic, declarative, bottom-up approach adopted by Web services.
1541-1672
Payne, Terry R.
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Payne, Terry R.
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Payne, Terry R. (2008) Web Services from an Agent Perspective. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23 (2).

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The growth of automated services on the Web has facilitated the emergence of a new software development paradigm. This paradigm is based on the composition of disparate services to achieve large-scale, reusable solutions for diverse domains. Borrowing heavily from research in object-oriented software engineering and multiagent systems, the Web service paradigm supports the construction, publication, provision, integration, and utilization of course-grained, software services in open, heterogeneous environments. This article examines this Web service paradigm from an open multiagent systems perspective and contrasts the formally grounded, knowledge-centric view of agents with the pragmatic, declarative, bottom-up approach adopted by Web services.

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Published date: March 2008
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 265307
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/265307
ISSN: 1541-1672
PURE UUID: c9e0d938-459f-499d-95dc-65025c851e85

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2008 11:00
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 08:06

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Author: Terry R. Payne

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