Using argumentative agents to manage communities of Web services

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings - 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINAW'07

Publication Date

10-18-2007

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for specifying Web services communities. A Web service is an accessible application that humans, software agents, and other applications in general can discover, compose, and invoke in order to satisfy users' needs like hotel booking. Web services providing the same functionality are gathered into one community, independently of their origins. This framework shows how software agents that are able to argue, negotiate, and reason about Web services can be used to specify these Web services and to manage their respective communities. The use of what we call argumentative agents helps Web services in being better organized within communities and in achieving the goals for which they are conceived. The community is led by a master component, which among others attracts new Web services to the community, retains existing Web services in the community, and identifies the Web services in the community that will participate in composite Web services. All these operations are managed by interacting agents through flexible conversations made up by argumentation, persuasion, and negotiation phases called dialogue games. © 2007 IEEE.

ISBN

0769528473

Publisher

IEEE

Volume

1

First Page

588

Last Page

593

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Hotels, Information analysis, Software agents, Telecommunication networks, Flexible conversations, Hotel booking, Web services communities, Web services

Scopus ID

35248893398

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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