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Software Agent Technologies 1

It is by now a cliché that there is no one, universally accepted definition of intelligent agent technology, but a number loosely related techniques. And yet there are certain themes that appear common to agent-based systems, and correspondingly, certain problems that must be addressed and overcome by all agent system builders. The aim of this paper is to briefly survey the tools and techniques...

Integration of Software Agent Technologies and Web Services

Web Services technology enables the automation of service discovery, invocation, and composition. On the other hand, Software Agents provide a distinctive capability in mediating user goals to determine service invocations. Software Agents are autonomous entities that can discover, invoke, compose, and monitor services without user’s intervention. Moreover, agents possess the ability to handle ...

Agent Technologies for M-Services

Innovations in Software Agent-Based B2B Technologies

In recent years, there has been increasing work where intelligent software agents have been used to support electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents also called Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, has mostly been seen in areas such as service discovery and knowledge management , automated negotiation and pricing, auctioning and transactional reasoning , and ...

Integrating Agent Technologies into Enterprise Systems Using Web Services

In this work we present a decoupled architectural approach that allows Software Agents to interoperate with enterprise systems using Web Services. The solution leverages existing technologies and standards in order to reduce the time-to-market and increase the adoption of agent-based applications. Insights on applications that may be enhanced by the model are presented.