Intelligent Agents for Automatic Service Composition in Ambient Intelligence

The incapability to foresee or react to all the events that take place in a specific environment supposes an important handicap for Ambient Intelligence systems, expected to be self-managed, proactive, and goal-driven. Endowing such systems with capabilities to understand and reason about context seems like a promising solution to overcome this hitch. Supported on the service-oriented paradigm, composing rather than combining services provides a reasonable mean to implement versatile systems. This paper describes how systems for Ambient Intelligence can be improved by combining automatic service composition and reasoning capabilities upon a distributed middleware framework.

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Towards Automatic Service Composition within ARGUGRID

Developing Advanced Web Services through P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents - Advances in Web Technologies and Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-973-6.ch004 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 49-68

Author(s):

Nabeel Azam ◽

Vasa Curcin ◽

Li Guo ◽

Moustafa Ghanem

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Service Composition ◽

Intelligent Agents ◽

User Requirements ◽

Workflow Systems ◽

Creation Process ◽

Workflow System ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Remote Services ◽

Automatic Service Composition

Workflow systems play an important role in service-oriented computing as they provide an intuitive mechanism for orchestrating the execution of remote services. Constructing new workflows from raw services however, is not always a straight-forward task. It requires resolving many decisions including locating available services, determining which of them match the user requirements and also deciding how to compose them together into valid applications. Workflow construction activities can be simplified, or possibly even automated, by using a combination of semantic annotations and delegation of the decision making tasks to intelligent agents. Two key challenges arise when developing a practical system that attempts to address this vision. The first is elaborating the key properties of service workflows and the decisions that agents are required to assist in. This information is needed for designing and implementing the internals of the agent mind. The second is designing and implementing the run-time interfaces between the workflow system and the agent system to enable the exchange of information between them. This chapter describes our experience in addressing these two challenges and in developing a framework that simplifies the workflow creation process within the ARGUGRID project.

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A Method of E-Service Workflow Composition Based on Linear Logic Inference Rules

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.756-759.2120 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 756-759 ◽

pp. 2120-2124

Author(s):

Shan Zhou ◽

Fang Yu Zhang

Keyword(s):

Service Composition ◽

Linear Logic ◽

Internal Representation ◽

Inference Rules ◽

Finite State ◽

Behavior Description ◽

Automatic Service Composition ◽

Interface Definition ◽

And Behavior ◽

Logic Inference

The paper proposes a method for semantic message matching in automatic service composition. It develops a framework in which the exported message description and behavior description of a service, and represents the behavior of a service with a finite state machine. Since the service interface definition can be represented by ontology concepts, the internal representation language enables us to define some issues required by service composition formally, qualitative and quantitative constraints plus reasoning on concepts, and the service behavior can be represented using linear logic formulas, so the inference rules of linear logic can check the match-ability and satisfy-ability of service message.

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Application of Subject-Oriented Modeling in Automatic Service Composition

Communications in Computer and Information Science - S-BPM ONE – Setting the Stage for Subject-Oriented Business Process Management ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-15915-2_6 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 71-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Erwin Aitenbichler ◽

Stephan Borgert

Keyword(s):

Service Composition ◽

Automatic Service Composition

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Reusable Services and Semi-automatic Service Composition for Automotive Software

Model-Driven Development of Reliable Automotive Services - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-70930-5_11 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 161-181

Author(s):

Holger Giese

Keyword(s):

Service Composition ◽

Automotive Software ◽

Automatic Service Composition

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Generalized Demand-Driven Web Services

Advances in Web Technologies and Engineering - Handbook of Research on Demand-Driven Web Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5884-4.ch005 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 102-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mihai Horia Zaharia

Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Service Composition ◽

Intelligent Agents ◽

Human Life ◽

Knowledge Society ◽

Real Life ◽

Service Oriented Architectures ◽

Developed Economies ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Service Oriented

Highly developed economies are based on the knowledge society. A variety of software tools are used in almost every aspect of human life. Service-oriented architectures are limited to corporate-related business solutions. This chapter proposes a novel approach aimed to overcome the differences between real life services and software services. Using the design approaches for the current service-oriented architecture, a solution that can be implemented in open source systems has been proposed. As a result, a new approach to creating an agent for service composition is introduced. The agent itself is created by service composition too. The proposed approach might facilitate the research and development of Web services, service-oriented architectures, and intelligent agents.

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