TOWARDS AN AGENT-BASED AND CONTEXT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO COMPOSE WEB SERVICES

Zakaria Maamar, Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Willem Jan van den Heuvel

2004

Abstract

We present an agent-based and context-oriented approach for the composition of Web services. A Web service is an accessible application that other applications and humans can discover and trigger to satisfy multiple needs (e.g., hotel booking). Because of the complexity that characterizes the composition of Web services, two concepts in this paper are put forward to reduce this complexity namely software agent and context. A software agent is an autonomous entity that acts on behalf of users, whereas context is any relevant information that characterizes a situation. During the composition process, software agents engage conversations with their peers to agree on which Web services will participate in this process. In these conversations, agents take into account the execution context of the Web services.

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Maamar Z., Kouadri Mostéfaoui S., Yahyaoui H. and Jan van den Heuvel W. (2004). TOWARDS AN AGENT-BASED AND CONTEXT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO COMPOSE WEB SERVICES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 214-221. DOI: 10.5220/0002600102140221


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Zakaria Maamar and Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui and Hamdi Yahyaoui and Willem Jan van den Heuvel},
title={TOWARDS AN AGENT-BASED AND CONTEXT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO COMPOSE WEB SERVICES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={214-221},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002600102140221},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - TOWARDS AN AGENT-BASED AND CONTEXT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO COMPOSE WEB SERVICES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Maamar Z.
AU - Kouadri Mostéfaoui S.
AU - Yahyaoui H.
AU - Jan van den Heuvel W.
PY - 2004
SP - 214
EP - 221
DO - 10.5220/0002600102140221