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Agent-based service-oriented computing

By Kuo-Ming Chao , Nathan Griffiths (auth.) , Nathan Griffiths , Kuo-Ming Chao (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag London
Year
2010
ISBN
1849960402, 9781849960403, 9781849960410
DOI
10.1007/978-1-84996-041-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8086982 bytes)
Series
Advanced information and knowledge processing
Edition
1
Pages
270\284
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Models and Principles; Software Engineering; Manag

Description

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.

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