Extending Web Services Technologies

EXTENDING WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGIES addresses the rapidly growing impact of Multi-Agent Systems on Web Services tools and techniques by presenting recent and significant developments in the general areas of Web services and software agents. In particular, the book addresses the potential for techniques from Multi-Agent Systems R&D to impact the difficult challenges that must be tackled for Web services technology to realize its promises. The area of Web services offers the multi-agent community exciting research possibilities, including similarities in system architectures, powerful tools, and a focus on issues such as trust and reliability. Likewise, techniques developed in the multi-agent research community promise to have a strong impact on this fast growing technology. The contents of this volume evolved from a workshop on Web services and agent-based engineering. In addition to the extended workshop papers, the book contains additional contributions written by leading international researchers and professionals from both the Web Services and Multi-Agent Systems community. Topics include:Technologies for Business-Driven Information Technology ManagementService-Oriented Computing and Software AgentsOWL-S and Agent-Based SystemsA Broker for OWL-S Web ServicesAgent-Based Web Services for Interoperability with the Web-Centric Enterprise KAoS Semantic Policy and Domain ServicesAgent-Based Support for Service CompositionQuality-of-Service Based Grid CommunitiesEnabling Flexible Interaction with Web ServicesComposing Workflows of Semantic Web ServicesComposing Web Services using an Agent FactoryBrokerage for Mathematical Services in MONETUtilizing Web Services in an Agent Based Transaction ModelOn Building Robust Web Service-Based Applications