Agent-based service-oriented computing

✍ Scribed by Kuo-Ming Chao, Nathan Griffiths (auth.), Nathan Griffiths, Kuo-Ming Chao (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Advanced information and knowledge processing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Distributed software systems are becoming evermore prevalent, and we increasingly desire them to operate in heterogeneous, dynamic, and open environments. Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged over recent years as a successful approach for building and maintaining such systems. However, as the environments in which we require systems to operate become more complex, we require software components to have increasing degrees of flexibility, autonomy, and intelligence. Agent-based systems naturally complement SOC by offering the intelligence and reasoning capabilities that are needed.

The integration of agents and SOC is a broad and active research area. This book is a collection of chapters from experts in the field, that gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in the main areas of current research, and identifies likely future directions. Researchers, students and practitioners will find this book a useful insight into the current state-of-the-art. The book also includes a general introduction the basic notions of SOC for readers who are unfamiliar with the approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Service Advertisement and Discovery....Pages 21-46
Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition....Pages 47-80
Flexible Workflow Management in Service Oriented Environments....Pages 81-111
Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures....Pages 113-139
Dependability in Service-Oriented Computing....Pages 141-160
Consensus Issues for Service Advertisement and Selection....Pages 161-187
Trust and Reputation....Pages 189-224
QoS-Aware Service Selection....Pages 225-251
Future Directions....Pages 253-272
Back Matter....Pages 1-3

✦ Subjects

Models and Principles; Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computing Methodologies; Information Storage and Retrieval; e-Commerce/e-business