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ALIVE: An Agent-based Framework for Dynamic and Robust Service-oriented Applications

06 September 2010
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ALIVE: An Agent-based Framework for Dynamic and Robust Service-oriented Applications

Vázquez-Salceda, J., Vasconcelos, W., Padget,J., Dignum, F. Clarke, S., Palau, M.

Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), (van der Hoek, Kaminka, Lespérance, Luck and Sen eds.), pp. 1637-1638. Toronto, 2010.

Abstract: Service-oriented systems are becoming more and more nodes in a digital, dynamic ecosystem requiring the identification and estab- lishment of flexible, spontaneous collaboration activities between services. This requires new engineering approaches that can inte- grate new functionalities and behaviours into existing running sys- tems of active, distributed and interdependent processes. Here, we present the approach of the FP7 ALIVE1 project to the use of formal models of coordination and organisation mechanisms to deliver a flexible, high-level means to describe the structure of interactions between services in the environment. We propose to build on the current activities in service-oriented engineering by defining three levels: (i) An organisational level models the organisational struc- ture of executing and interlinked services and the context around them. (ii) A coordination level provides flexible ways to model in- teraction between the services. (iii) These two levels connect with existing (semantic) Web services, which contain semantic descrip- tions to make components aware of their social context and of the rules of engagement with other services.

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