Wrapping Software Agents into Web Services
Manish Chhabra, Hongen Lu · Active Media Technology · 2006
The World Wide Web is evolving from a sea of information to a service oriented marketplace. Web Service (WS) is one of the fastest growing areas of information technology in recent years. To meet the increasing demand of vast range of Web Services, an engineering approach is much needed. In this paper we propose a methodology to wrap software agents with Web Services. This method takes advantage of widely accepted agent development tools in order to speed up the development of WS, and it also broadens the accessibility of agents. Our case study shows significant improvement of the nature of information provided by the WSs by making them more dynamic with the use of autonomous goal directed behavior of software agents.