SERVICE-ORIENTED INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT AND AGENT MODELS

Nour Alhouda Aboud, Eric Cariou, Eric Gouardères, Philippe Aniorté

2011

Abstract

Multiagent systems and component-based systems are two mature approaches; each one owns strengths and weaknesses points. Our goal is to integrate these two approaches by reaching a high level of connectivity between them to overcome their shortages. The concept of service plays a key role in their interoperability. Indeed, the relations between these three domains are manifold. From a service perspective, agents and components are considered as service providers or consumers while services can be seen as their functional abstractions. Therefore, the concept of service as the interaction point between agents and component is the base of our integration approach. We will define a specification process composed of several models. They are dedicated to specify an application through several aspects: abstract services, components, agents and mix of them. In this paper, we present a global view of this process and three of its models: service, agent and component ones.

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Alhouda Aboud N., Cariou E., Gouardères E. and Aniorté P. (2011). SERVICE-ORIENTED INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT AND AGENT MODELS . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-76-8, pages 327-336. DOI: 10.5220/0003629803270336


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@conference{act4soc11,
author={Nour Alhouda Aboud and Eric Cariou and Eric Gouardères and Philippe Aniorté},
title={SERVICE-ORIENTED INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT AND AGENT MODELS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={327-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003629803270336},
isbn={978-989-8425-76-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2011)
TI - SERVICE-ORIENTED INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT AND AGENT MODELS
SN - 978-989-8425-76-8
AU - Alhouda Aboud N.
AU - Cariou E.
AU - Gouardères E.
AU - Aniorté P.
PY - 2011
SP - 327
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0003629803270336