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Extending Web Services Technologies pp 139–160Cite as

Agent-Based Support for Service Composition

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Part of the book series: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations ((MASA,volume 13))

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The complexity of Web services and software agents engineering calls for an approach that aims first, at hiding this complexity and second, at supporting designers in their design and development work. This chapter presents such an approach, which proposes three aspects related to Web services and software agents engineering: intrinsic, organizational/functional, and behavioral. Once the Web services and software agents are engineered, the user in collaboration, with some of the software agents, composes Web services into composite services. The selection of Web services to participate in a composite service is based on two criteria: the execution cost of a Web service and the location of the computing hosts on which the Web service is performed.

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  1. Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E

    Zakaria Maamar

  2. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng & Boualem Benatallah

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  1. CSLI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94205

    Lawrence Cavedon

  2. College of Info. Systems, Zayed University, P.O. Box 19282, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Zakaria Maamar

  3. SRI International, 333 Ravenswood AVE, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3493

    David Martin

  4. School of CSE, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Boualem Benatallah

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Maamar, Z., Sheng, Q.Z., Benatallah, B. (2004). Agent-Based Support for Service Composition. In: Cavedon, L., Maamar, Z., Martin, D., Benatallah, B. (eds) Extending Web Services Technologies. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23344-X_7

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