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OWL-S and Agent-Based Systems

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Extending Web Services Technologies

Part of the book series: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations ((MASA,volume 13))

Abstract

Over the last decade, research in agent-based systems (ABS) has spawned a multi-faceted field, addressing a broad range of challenges and generating a varied array of technical approaches. Web service technologies, in contrast, have arisen in a more incremental fashion, with more modest aims, although the vision statements associated with Web services sometimes overlap significantly with those of ABS. Work on Semantic Web services aims to provide richer specifications of services, so as to enable fuller, more flexible automation of service provision and use, support the construction of more powerful tools and methodologies, and promote the use of semantically well-founded reasoning about services. This chapter provides an overview of OWL-S, a Semantic Web services ontology, and discusses its connections with work on agent-based systems. We argue that OWL-S takes some significant, although limited, steps towards a foundation for the deployment of agent technologies on the Web.

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    Martin, D., Burstein, M., McIlraith, S., Paolucci, M., Sycara, K. (2004). OWL-S and Agent-Based Systems. 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_3

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