Integrating Agent Technology with Service-Oriented Computing:State-of-the-Art and Prospect
Xinjun Mao · 2008
Agent technology and service-oriented computing are two important techniques in the literature of computer science.Both of them attempt to provide effective ways to develop software systems deployed in Internet.However,the problems that they attempt to deal with,technology solutions,richness and weakness are actually various and different.Recently,many attentions are put on the integration of agent technology with service-oriented computing in order to deal with the open and dynamic applications in Internet.The background and motivation of such integration are analyzed and investigated,the state-of-the-art research is surveyed,the problems and challenges are discussed.