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The agent environment in multi-agent systems: A middleware perspective
2009
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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services (security, persistency, etc.) are only minimally considered in multi-agent systems, (3) domain-specific middleware for multi-agent systems such as communication services and support for stigmergic ...
Similarly, the agent environment in multi-agent systems is traditionally considered as reusable communication or coordination infrastructure. ...
We thank Alessandro Ricci and Mirko Viroli for the inspiring discussions on the subject of this paper. ...
doi:10.3233/mgs-2009-0121
fatcat:zmj2fhauzrhg5dfwarqan5ttya
Baton: A Service Management System for Coordinating Smart Things in Smart Spaces
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Baton is designed as a complement to coordination approaches in multi-agent systems with a focus on mechanisms for service discovery, service composition, request arbitration and dependency maintenance ...
However, since agents in smart spaces are dynamic, resource-bounded and have complicated service dependencies, current approaches to coordination in multi-agent systems encounter new challenges when applied ...
Baton can be regarded as a complement to coordination approaches of multi-agent systems with a focus on mechanisms for service discovery, service composition, request arbitration and dependency maintenance ...
doi:10.1007/11596042_2
fatcat:5jcmygjmm5exhiezztiar7whjm
Integrating On-policy Reinforcement Learning with Multi-agent Techniques for Adaptive Service Composition
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2014
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Consequently, this paper presents a new model for large-scale and adaptive service composition based on multi-agent reinforcement learning. ...
In service computing, online services and the Internet environment are evolving over time, which poses a challenge to service composition for adaptivity. ...
Finally, we have proposed the multi-agent Sarsa algorithm for our multi-agent service composition. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45391-9_11
fatcat:spkvqbq4mvcwbnazt4kmdij4ei
Multi-Agent Planning for Automatic Geospatial Web Service Composition in Geoportals
2018
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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In this solution, the registered Catalogue Service for Web (CSW) services in the geoportal along with a composition coordinator component interact together to synthesize Open Geospatial Consortium Web ...
In this paper, a multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) planning solution was proposed, which works within the geoportal architecture and enables the geoportal to compose semantically annotated Open ...
[15] presented a distributed, multi-agent algorithm for automatic generation of composite W3C web services. They utilized a multi-agent AI planning algorithm to generate the composition. ...
doi:10.3390/ijgi7100404
fatcat:p47zuake7vg6fb6h6otfyzwtye
A novel approach for enacting the distributed business workflows using BPEL4WS on the multi-agent platform
2005
IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)
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It demonstrates that a multi-agent protocol (Lightweight Coordination Calculus (LCC)[5]) can be used to interpret a BPEL4WS specification to enable distributed business workflow using web services composition ...
The key difference between our system and other existing multi-agent based web services composition systems is that with our approach, a business process model(system requirement) can be adopted directly ...
An alternative approach is to employ a multi-agent system for web services coordination [5, 7] . ...
doi:10.1109/icebe.2005.13
dblp:conf/icebe/GuoRC05
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Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-agent Platform
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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] composition on the multi-agent platform. ...
It demonstrates that a multi-agent protocol (Lightweight Coordination Calculus (LCC)[8]) can be used to interpret a BPEL4WS specification to enable distributed business workflow[5] using web services[2 ...
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doi:10.1007/11550648_4
fatcat:4z5iakvbczenvokpq5chb5niba
An Agent-based Decentralised Process Management Framework for Web service Composition
2007
Proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems
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To address these problems, this research proposes an agent-based decentralised process management framework for Web service composition. ...
Such a framework naturally reflects the distributed and dynamic features of the Web services environment and subsequently offers improved coordination support for service composition provision. ...
Guo et al. describe a multi-agent platform for enacting distributed business processes using LCC, a Light Coordination Calculus that can interpret BPEL specification and enable distributed enactment [ ...
doi:10.4108/infoscale.2007.904
dblp:conf/infoscale/YanPKY07
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Semantic Web Service Architecture Using Multi-agent Scenario Description
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2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Furthermore, we developed a system that translates multi-agent scenario to DAML-S, and that registers the translated DAML-S as a new Web service. ...
The other limitation is that once composed, web service cannot be reused or transferrd for other requesters, because there is no function to put the semantics on composite web service. ...
In the following section, we introduce the scenario description language Q, and discuss how multi-agent scenario is described for web service composition. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_9
fatcat:krjj37cn5revjhi2xyr3mrk274
Multi-agent and Workflow-Based Web Service Management Model
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2010
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
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The coordination between agent service and Web service is the key factor for intelligent Web service management in the multi-agent based Web service framework. ...
In view of the drawbacks of existing coordination approaches for agent service and Web service, this paper proposed a multi-agent and workflow-based Web service management model. ...
Multi-agent Interaction in the Intelligent Web angle of ultimate goal, these agents supply Web service for users by mutual negotiation. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16327-2_7
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Illustration of a Multi-agent Systems Concept as User's Collaborative Software System
2008
2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation
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The research also identifies the multi-agent systems problem domains and its emphasis on the existing Web services user coordination problem. It then proposes high level semantic web architecture. ...
A substantial survey in the field of multi-agent systems research literature reveals that the majority of the system developers have not accurately identified the purpose behind applying the multi-agent ...
Figure 1 . 1 High level multi-agent systems for Web services' problem domain. ...
doi:10.1109/cimca.2008.201
dblp:conf/cimca/AlHashelM08
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ASAPM - An Agent-Based Framework for Adaptive Management of Composite Service Lifecycle
2007
2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops
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This paper presents a generic agent-based framework which can be used as reference architecture for developing agent-based systems for composite service life-cycle management. ...
Agent technology is well positioned to address some of the key problems of Service-oriented Computing. ...
Workflow subsystem -the Workflow Coordinator Agent setups of atomic enactment agents for decentralized/distributed enactment of the service composition. ...
doi:10.1109/wiiatw.2007.4427625
dblp:conf/iat/ChhetriMGK07
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Study on the Availability Prediction of the Reconfigurable Networked Software System
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2012
arXiv
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This paper describes multi-agent based availability prediction approach for the reconfigurable networked software system. ...
Multi-agent coordination and interaction model The proposed Bus_Agent and Ser_Agent is used to run a multi-agent coordination and interaction model, Bus_Agent refers to the agent which manages multiple ...
Based on this, a model which is suitable for NSS's multi-agent coordination and interaction is proposed here, shown in Fig. 2 .
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arXiv:1210.7600v1
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Agent-based negotiation and decision making for dynamic supply chain formation
2009
Engineering applications of artificial intelligence
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Each agent works as a broker for each service type, dedicated to selecting solutions for each service as well as interacting with other agents in refining the decision making to achieve compatibility among ...
The coordination among agents concerns decision making at strategic, tactical, and operational level. ...
Acknowledgement This research is supported by UGC GRF Grant (716907 and 717708) from the Hong
Kong SAR Government and Seeding Funding for Basic Research (200711159052) from The University of Hong Kong ...
doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2008.09.001
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Intelligent business processes composition based on multi-agent systems
2014
Expert systems with applications
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This paper proposes a novel model for automatic construction of business processes called IPCASCI (Intelligent business Processes Composition based on multi-Agent systems, Semantics and Cloud Integration ...
The proposal is based on web service technology, including: (i) Automatic discovery of web services; (ii) Semantics description of web services; (iii) Automatic composition of existing web services to ...
It receives the start request from the manager agent, for which the composition coordinator agent creates an agent for each activity (or service), Figure 12 . ...
doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.003
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An Agent-Based Compositional Framework
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Web services requirements for means of automating the coordination of distributed heterogeneous applications have been addressed by a twopronged initiative. ...
The framework presented in this paper integrates agent technology with BPEL4WS, to enable two levels of coordination, namely local and centralised coordination through composition, and wider, distributed ...
In [6] , the rationale is to move away from the rigidity of workflow enactment of BPEL4WS/BPWS4J to the decentralised and flexible mode of coordination of multi-agent systems. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_57
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