Title :
An Amphibian Service-Oriented Agent Model for Cooperative Distributed Systems
Author :
Wang, Y.D. ; Ghenniwa, Hamada ; Shen, Weiming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON
Abstract :
This paper presents an amphibian service-oriented agent model (SOAM) to address three design issues facing modern distributed information systems: autonomy, distribution, and heterogeneity. This work incorporates the service-oriented design paradigm, agent-oriented design paradigm, and Web service technology as supporting pillars by extending the coordinated intelligent rational agent (CIR-Agent) model so that agents can survive not only in agent-oriented environments but also in service-oriented environments. The feasibility of the proposed approach has been demonstrated through a prototype system in the distributed manufacturing scheduling domain.
Keywords :
Web services; distributed processing; multi-agent systems; software architecture; Web service; amphibian service-oriented agent model; cooperative distributed systems; coordinated intelligent rational agent; distributed manufacturing scheduling domain; modern distributed information systems:; Councils; Design engineering; Distributed computing; Distributed information systems; Intelligent agent; Multiagent systems; Prototypes; Scheduling; Service oriented architecture; Web services; Agent Model; Agent-Orientation; Cooperative Distributed Systems; Cooperative Intelligent Rational Agent; Service-Orientation;
Conference_Titel :
e-Business Engineering, 2008. ICEBE '08. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICEBE.2008.95
