Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
Computational organization theory
Multiagent systems
Brokering and matchmaking for coordination of agent societies: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Creating Semantic Web Contents with Protégé-2000
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Agent Communication Languages: The Current Landscape
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Applying Agents to Bioinformatics in GeneWeaver
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
On the Use of Agents in BioInformatics Grid
CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
A Taxonomy of Middle-Agents for the Internet
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Multiagent Systems with Workflows
IEEE Internet Computing
ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A Manifesto for Agent Technology: Towards Next Generation Computing
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Bioinformatics integration and agent technology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Integration of biological sources: current systems and challenges ahead
ACM SIGMOD Record
An agent-based approach to tool integration
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) - Special section on tool integration applications and frameworks
A comparative evaluation of agent location mechanisms in large scale MAS
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Reconfigurable Web Wrapper Agents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Accomplishments and Challenges in Bioinformatics
IT Professional
Engineering web service invocations from agent systems
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
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The availability of massive amounts of biological data, distributed in various data sources, in conjunction with the need to understand the underlying biological processes of life, has prompted the development of a wide range of data analysis tools, most of which are publicly available through the Internet. However, due to the heterogeneity and complexity of the domain, performing a specific analysis by combining tools is complicated. In this paper, we argue that the software agent metaphor constitutes a flexible approach that efficiently addresses integration of bioinformatics analysis tools and dynamic composition-execution of data analysis workflows. To substantiate this assertion, a scalable engineering methodology is presented, aiming to address horizontal and/or vertical integration, through functionally related multiagent systems. The proposed approach is mediator-oriented, relying primarily on agent coordination strategies and semantic domain descriptions. The applicability and virtue of the proposed systems are illustrated through test cases addressing integration of computational gene finders.