Incidence calculus: A mechanism for probabilistic reasoning
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Brokering and matchmaking for coordination of agent societies: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Communication and Concurrency
An improvement to matchmaking algorithms for middle agents
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Quality driven web services composition
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
A Taxonomy of Middle-Agents for the Internet
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Matchmaking multi-party interactions using historical performance data
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
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Service oriented computing offers a new approach to programming. To be useful for large and diverse sets of problems, effective service selection and composition is crucial. While current frameworks offer tools and methods for selecting services based on various user-defined criteria, little attention has been paid to how such services act and interact. Similarly, the patterns of interaction might be important at a level other than that of the user-programmer. Semantic agreement between services, and the patterns of interaction between them, will be an important factor in the usability and success of service composition. We argue that this cannot be guaranteed by logic-based description of individual services. We have developed a simple but apparently effective technique for selecting agents and interactions based on evidence of their prior performance.