Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing

ISBN-13: 9781447125341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 270 str.

Opis

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) allows software development time to be shortened by the composition of existing services across the Internet. Further exploitation of this revolutionary trend is feasible through automation, thanks to the use of software agents and techniques from distributed artificial intelligence. This book provides an overview of the related technologies and insight into state-of-the art research results in the field. The topics discussed cover the various stages in the life cycle of service-oriented software development using agent technologies to automate the development process and to manage services in a dynamic environment. The book presents both academic research results and the latest developments from industry. Researchers from academia and industry, as well as postgraduates, will find this cutting-edge volume indispensable in order to gain understanding of the issues associated with agent-based service-oriented computing along with recent, and likely future technology trends.

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.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This book provides insights into the issues related to the convergence of agent-based and service-oriented computing methods. ... The book's strength lies in its use of simple, example-based algorithms for various important attributes of service-oriented and agent-based computing. ... an encyclopedia for readers who are interested in conducting research on agent-based and service-oriented computing. Practitioners will find this book useful for understanding the underlying principles of these two contemporary methods, and will thus be able to use them appropriately to design and develop user-centered services." (Harekrishna Misra, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2011)

Spis treści

1. Introduction 1.1 Distributed Systems 1.2 Software Agent 1.3 Service-Oriented Architecture 1.4 Modelling Methodologies 1.5 Supporting Development Platform 1.6 Agents and SOA Standards 1.7 Overview of Chapters 1.8 Conclusion 2. Service Advertisement and Discovery 2.1 Introduction to Service Advertisement and Discovery 2.2 Basic Technologies 2.3 Web service registry architectures 2.4 Data Structures 2.5 System Requirements 2.6 Advertisement and Discovery Services 2.7 Agents in Service Advertisement and Discovery 2.8 Challenges in Service Advertisement and Discovery 2.9 Summary 3. Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Preliminaries 3.3 Related Work 3.4 Architecture of MQSC 3.5 Service Composition Generation 3.6 Service Composition Deployment and Execution 3.7 Case Study 3.8 Conclusion and Future Work 4. Flexible Workflow Management in Service Oriented Environments 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Orchestration and Choreography 4.3 Workflow and Web Services 4.4 The Role of Agents in Service-Based Business Processes 4.5 Dynamic Workflows 4.6 Summary and Outlook 5. Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Web Services and SOA 5.3 Semantic Web Services 5.4 Semantic Techniques for Automating SOA 5.5 Conclusions and Outlook 6. Dependability in Service-Oriented Computing 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Service-Oriented Architecture 6.3 Models 6.4 Dependability Enhancement in a Service-Oriented Architecture 6.5 Dependability Evaluation 6.6 Case Studies 6.7 Conclusions 7. Consensus Issues for Service Advertisement and Selection 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Existing Solutions for Web Service Selection 7.3 The Proposed QoS-aware Services Selection Model 7.4 Two Numerical Cases 7.5 Discussion 7.6 Conclusion 8. Trust and Reputation 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Trust and Reputation 8.3 Agents and Service-Oriented Computing 8.4 Trust Classes and Ontologies 8.5 Summary 9. QoS-Aware Service Selection 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Service Selection Procedure 9.3 Case Study - Selection of Switching Service 9.4 Performance Evaluation 9.5 The Selection of Switching Services 9.6 Summary 10. Future Directions 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Trust and Reputation 10.3 Contract-based Systems 10.4 Service Accountability

Blurb

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.