Artificial Intelligence: A Promised Land for Web Services
Deborah Richards, Marta Sabou, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 2003
This paper considers the possibilities offered by the application of techniques from the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to the newer field of web services (WS).Current commercial and research-based efforts are reviewed and positioned within the two fields.Particular attention is given to the application of AI techniques to the important issue of WS composition.Within the range of AI technologies considered, we focus on the work of the Semantic Web and Agent-based communities to provide WSs with semantic descriptions and intelligent behaviour and reasoning capabilities.Re-composition of web services is also considered and a number of adaptive agent approaches are introduced, including our own, to achieve this.