Agent Based Dynamic Service Synthesis in Large-Scale Open Environments: Experiences from the Agentcities Testbed

  • Authors:
  • Steven Willmott;Simon Thompson;David Bonnefoy;Patricia Charlton;Ion Constantinescu;Jonathan Dale;Tianning Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • University Politècnica de Catalunya;BT Exact;Motorola;Motorola;Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne;Fujitsu;Agentscape

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The notion of autonomous agents populating large-scale open environments, such as the public Internet, that are able to dynamically discover one another, interact and synthesise new software applications or results has become one of the key technology visions of the past few years. This Agentcities testbed represents one of the largest attempts to date to prototype such a vision: deploying current generations of agent and Semantic Web technologies to create a global test bed for dynamic service composition involving more than 100 participating organisations. The paper presents an overview of this initiative.