Springer Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) allows software development time to be shortened by the composition of existing services across the Internet. This book reviews the related technologies and offers insight into state-of-the-art research results in the field. Review From the reviews: “This book provides insights into the issues related to the convergence of agent-based and service-oriented computing methods. … The book’s strength lies in its use of simple, example-based algorithms for various important attributes of service-oriented and agent-based computing. … an encyclopedia for readers who are interested in conducting research on agent-based and service-oriented computing. Practitioners will find this book useful for understanding the underlying principles of these two contemporary methods, and will thus be able to use them appropriately to design and develop user-centered services.” (Harekrishna Misra, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2011) From the Back Cover Distributed software systems are becoming evermore prevalent, and we increasingly desire them to operate in heterogeneous, dynamic, and open environments. Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged over recent years as a successful approach for building and maintaining such systems. However, as the environments in which we require systems to operate become more complex, we require software components to have increasing degrees of flexibility, autonomy, and intelligence. Agent-based systems naturally complement SOC by offering the intelligence and reasoning capabilities that are needed. The integration of agents and SOC is a broad and active research area. This book is a collection of chapters from experts in the field, that gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in the main areas of current research, and identifies likely future directions. Researchers, students and practitioners will find this book a useful insight into the current state-of-the-art. The book also includes a general introduction the basic notions of SOC for readers who are unfamiliar with the approach.