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Web service composition can provide a value-chain between customers and suppliers. The increasing number of services, and thus possible combinations, demands the development of dynamic and automatic techniques for their composition. Current commercial solutions are limited and are primarily static and manual. Automation requires reasoning about (semantic descriptions of) the services. This paper describes our initial work which brings together agents, Web service and semantic Web technology. Our knowledge-based software engineering approach to the design of agents, known as the Agent Factory, is applied to the composition of Web services. Using semantic descriptions of Web services written in DAML-S, the design process in our Agent Factory derives a Web service configuration. This paper also includes some observations regarding our experiences with DAML-S, UDDI and WSDL for this purpose.
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Richards, D., van Splunter, S., Brazier, F.M., Sabou, M. (2004). Composing Web Services Using an Agent Factory. In: Cavedon, L., Maamar, Z., Martin, D., Benatallah, B. (eds) Extending Web Services Technologies. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23344-X_11
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