Title
Agent-based communities of web services: an argumentation-driven approach
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to discuss how to sustain the growth of Web services through the use of com- munities. A community aims at gathering Web services with the same functionality independently of their origins, loca- tions, and functioning. To make Web services more respon- sive to the environment in which they run and to be more flexible when managing communities, Web services are asso- ciated with software agents enhanced with argumentation capacities. This type of agents persuade and negotiate with other peers for the sake of letting their respective Web ser- vices reach their goals in an efficient way. Associating Web services with this type of agents allows them to select good communities and allow the communities to host the good Web services and to select the best ones for composite sce- narios. Furthermore, this provides satisfactory solutions for three open problems: starvation (Web services refuse all the possibilities of joining communities), competition-free (Web services accept joining any community without being selec- tive), and unfairness (always the same Web services members
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s11761-008-0033-4
Service Oriented Computing and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
software agent,web service
Web development,Services computing,World Wide Web,Computer science,WS-Addressing,Web standards,WS-I Basic Profile,Web application security,Web service,WS-Policy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
4
1863-2394
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.61
36
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jamal Bentahar1110796.78
Zakaria Maamar2140.61
Wei Wan3150.98
Djamal Benslimane493290.92
Philippe Thiran557546.19
Subramanian Sattanathan6261.93