The Adaptation of Agent Configurations using Web Services as Components
Deborah Richards, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier, Marta Sabou · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 2003
Abstract: To support dynamic and reactive behaviour we have developed an Agent Factory which (re-)structures an agent configuration using existing components. In this paper we present our current work which uses Web services as the components. Our initial work has focused on configuring Web services to create a design artifact. This is achieved by reasoning about the requirements and the semantic descriptions of Web services in the DAML-S Web service description language and ontologies. We provide an example of the design process and our findings regarding DAML-S.