Review of Projects Related to Agent Web Services

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Review of Projects Related to Agent Web
Services

• Youyong Zou
• UMBC
• Feb 17, 2004

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Relationship

• Agent needs Web Services Ubiquity and widely
  supported by industry.
• Web Services could use Agent autonomy,
  heterogeneity, and dynamism.

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Another View
With Agent
Without Agent
Copy from the presentation by F. Dignum Utrecht
University
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How it happens?

• Incorporate multi-agent paradigms into Web
  service architectures
• Incorporating Web services standards into
  existing multi-agent architectures
• Agent-enabled semantic web (services)
  Medium-Term Future (2006-2008)
• -----From agent technology roadmap

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TAGA UMBC

• OWL as FIPA ACL content language
• OWL-S as agents service description language
• Agent wrapper for web services
• Enhanced DF for both agent and WS

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Agentcities Web Services Group
Gateway WS ? Agent
FIPA Agent
Web Services
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WS Client
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FIPA Services
Gateway Agent? WS
UDDI
FIPA DF
FIPA Agent
Web Services
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WSDL2Jade

• Read WSDL file
• Generate Jade code

WS
Agent
Wrapper Agent
SOAP/ HTTP
ACL/ MTP
WSDL
WS Ontology
WS Ontology
WS
Agent
Wrapper
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Multi-Agent web services (university of
Edinburgh)
Web Service
Intelligent Agent

Agent Stub With intelligent behavior (MAP
language)
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Scientific American Scenario MIND SWAP Lab

• Service description and discovery OWL-S,
  Universal Plug and Play
• Service Agents action-based web services
• Planning Simple Hierarchical Ordered Planner
• Personal agent JADE, RDF
• Knowledge management ParkaSW
• Trustrule-based authentication and distributed
  trust system using social network analysis

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Agent-based Semantic Web Services (University
of Southampton)

• DAML-S Process ontology for FIPA-ACL

Service Description
Domain-Specific Profile
ACL Process Ontology
Profile
Process
DAML-S
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GraniteNights (University of Aberdeen)

• Allows a user to plan an evenings entertainment
  in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.
• RDF as agent content language
• DAMLOIL as ontology language
• Jade as agent system
• Multiple agents with different roles.

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Semantic Web Services as Agent Behaviors
(University of South Carolina)

• Use Semantic Web and Web Services to facilitate
  agent-based workflow management in open
  environment.
• Piccola as composition language
• DAML-S as capability description language
• BPEL4WS for FIPA Agent

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Hybrid architecture of agents and semantic Web
services Montreal University