Title :
An Argumentation Framework for Communities of Web Services
Author :
Bentahar, Jamal ; Maamar, Zakaria ; Benslimane, Djamal ; Thiran, Philippe
Author_Institution :
Concordia Univ., Montreal
Abstract :
As the number of Web services continues to increase, so does the opportunities to compose them to build more complex and complete business solutions. To facilitate and speed up Web-services discovery, Web services with similar (or equivalent) functionalities - such as flight booking and travel reservation - can be grouped into communities. Argumentation theory, implemented through a set of software agents that reason about Web services, can improve Web services performance through the notion of communities.
Keywords :
Web services; software agents; Web-services discovery; argumentation framework; flight booking; software agents; travel reservation; Application software; Communities; Concrete; Decision making; IEEE news; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Master-slave; Software agents; Web services; Argumentation; Community; Computational complexity; Dialogue game; Web services.;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2007.99
