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Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition

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Service composition is an active ongoing area of research in the field of Service-Oriented Computing. One of the research challenges is to provide a mechanism for the autonomous search and selection of suitable service provid-ers for each service type within service composition while guaranteeing the end-to-end QoS. A multi-agent based QoS-aware Service Composition solution (MQSC) is presented in this chapter. MQSC not only can provide a mechanism for the dynamic service composition but also can ensure the end-to-end QoS of the composite service.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 90604004 and 90412014, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. BK2007708 and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Network and Information Security under Grants No. BM2003201.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Junzhou Luo, Wei Li, Bo Liu, Xiao Zheng & Fang Dong

  2. Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Junzhou Luo, Wei Li, Bo Liu, Xiao Zheng & Fang Dong

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Luo, J., Li, W., Liu, B., Zheng, X., Dong, F. (2010). Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition. In: Griffiths, N., Chao, KM. (eds) Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-041-0_3

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